should go down and skate, but he hoped I would be back
in time to go with him to church.

I suppose this decision would be arrived at to-day by
nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand
homes in America, and probably also in the majority of
homes in England, though not in Scotland. But those
who hold to-day that the Sabbath in its fullest sense
was made for man, and who would open picture gal-
leries and museums to the public, and make the day
somewhat of a day of enjoyment for the masses instead
of pressing upon them the duty of mourning over sins
largely imaginary, are not more advanced than were my
parents forty years ago. They were beyond the ortho-
dox of the period when it was scarcely permissible, at
least among the Scotch, to take a walk for pleasure or
read any but religious books on the Sabbath.

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