a parish, this is the grand remedy for Sabbathbreaking. I know well that all this sounds impracticable and utopian to many ears. Ecclesiastical laws,-rectorial rights, the want of funds,—the want of men, all these and twenty other like objections will at once be started. Be it so. All I say is that until something of this kind is done we shall never stop the Sabbath-breaking of great towns. It will be a festering sore on the face of our country, which will every now and then break out and lead to enormous mischief. For my own part I see nothing in the proposal I have made which might not easily be attained, if the subject was fairly grappled with. Laws are repealed easily enough when public opinion demands it, and if they are bad, the sooner they are repealed the better.Rectorial rights must never stand in competition with the wants of immortal souls. They have succumbed already to the burial acts in many cases,—and why not again? They have had to give way, when it was needful to provide for dead bodies. We may surely require them to give way, when we want to provide for dead souls.-Men, I believe, of the right sort are to be found, if the Bishops will only encourage them to come forward.-Money, I am convinced, will never be wanting for a good cause, if a case is really made out. And after all we had better sacrifice fifty canonries than leave our great town parishes in their present condition. I commend these things to the attention of all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Let London, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and other large towns, be thoroughly evangelized, and you will strike a deadly blow at the root of all Sabbath-breaking. Leave them alone, or go on at the rate we go at present, and my firm conviction is that we shall never be free from a Sabbath question agitation. It will return periodically, like an ague fit, until the sources which now supply it are dried up. The plain truth is, that the Sabbath-breaking of the present day is one among many proofs of the low state of vital religion and the awful want of union among British Christians. We have wasted our time on petty internal quarrels, and neglected the mighty work of converting souls. We have wrangled and squabbled about matters of mint, anise, and cummin, and forgotten our Master's business. We have allowed vast town populations to grow up in semi-heathen ignorance, and are now reaping the fruit of our gross neglect in their Sabbath-breaking propensities. In short, while the doctors have been disputing, the disease has been spreading, and the patient dying. I pray God that we may all learn wisdom, and amend our ways before it be too late. We want less party spirit and sectarianism, and more work for Christ. We want a return to the old paths of the apostles in every branch of the church. We want a generation of ministers who can do their work without a grand Gothic edifice costing £10,000, and whose first ambition, is to go into every room in their parish, and tell the story of the cross of Christ. I am not sanguine in my expectations. Routine and precedent seem to bind men now-a-days with iron chains. But I deliberately repeat once more, that unless our large towns are more thoroughly evangelized, we shall never be long without a struggle TO KEEP THE SABBATH HOLY. I take the liberty of recommending to the attention of my brethren in the ministry, the following extract from the charge of the Venerable Bishop of Calcutta, for the year 1838. "Honour especially in your public and private instructions the primeval law of the Sabbath; the chief vestige of our Paradisaical state; the one command inscribed on the order of creation; the grand external symbol of revealed religion; a prominent branch of the first table of the moral law, and standing on the same footing as the love of God and our neighbour; the theme of the Prophets' exhortations in their descriptions of the evangelical age; vindicated indeed from the uncommanded austerities of the Pharisees, but honoured by the constant practice of our blessed Saviour; transferred by the Lord and his Apostles, after the resurrection, to that great day of the Church's triumph, but remaining the same in its apportionment of time, its spiritual character, and its divine obligation on the whole human race; and handed down and commended by the constant and unvaried usage of the Church from the very birth of Christianity to the present hour." St. Peter at Antioch. GALATIANS II. 11-16. "But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. "For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. "And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. "But when I saw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, if thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews; "We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles. "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." Reader, Did you ever consider what the Apostle Peter did at Antioch? serious consideration. What the Apostle Peter did at Rome we are often told. Roman-Catholic writers furnish us with many stories about this. Legends, traditions, and fables abound on the subject. But unhappily for these writers, Scripture is utterly silent upon this point. There is nothing in Scripture to show that the Apostle Peter ever was at Rome at all. But what did the Apostle Peter do at Antioch? This is the point on which I want to fasten your attention. This is the subject of the passage from the Epistle to the Galatians, which heads this tract. On this point, at any rate, the Scripture speaks clearly and unmistakeably. Read the passage over again, and ponder well what it contains. The six verses you have just read are striking on many accounts. They are striking, you will observe, from the event which they describe: here is one apostle rebuking another!-They are striking, when you consider who the two men are: Paul, the younger, rebukes Peter the elder!-They are striking, when you remark the occasion: this was no glaring fault, no flagrant sin, at first sight, that Peter had committed! Yet the Apostle Paul says, "I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed." He does more than this-he reproves Peter publicly for his error before all the Church at Antioch. He goes even further:-he writes an account of the matter, which is now read in a hundred languages all over the world. Reader, it is my firm conviction that the Holy Ghost means us to take particular notice of this passage of Scripture. If Christianity had been an invention of |