CONDITION OF THE EUROPEAN SUNDAY.
By Editor
BRO. W. M. JONES, of the Sabbath Memorial, London, can hardly be outdone in the way of giving a happy hit. Witness the following in the July number:— "A Clergyman in the United States writes to us for information respecting the condition of the European Sunday: We believe it is far from being healthy, and indeed its condition never has been entirely satisfactory. Doctors have for centuries frequently felt its pulse, but always with the same result—a shake of the head, and the forefinger of the right hand on the lips to indicate silence. Some of the faculty have been so indiscreet as to administer Scripture, but, as ought to have been expected, the patient has sensibly declined under that sort of treatment. Even the civil law has long since failed to revive its passive condition, and now flattering titles, human reason, and anecdotes, are tried, but all in vain. Nothing does Sunday so much good as a hard day's work. One item will serve as an illustration of what is going on: On that cold Sunday, the 14th of January last, the skaters, sliders, and on-lookers, on the various waters, in the parks of London alone, numbered between 250,000 and 300,000."