Speaking of the enforcement of the Lord's Day act in Canada, and the efforts of its friends to prevent the desecration of the Sunday sabbath, the Christian Statesman of January says:— We of the United States could learn something of our Canadian neighbors in this connection. If we desire to learn lessons in religious persecution, we do not need to stop with our Canadian neighbors. We can go back to the grand masters of the past. We can go back to the inauguration of the Sunday crusade in the third and fourth centuries, and trace down, step by step, the efforts which were made through blood and fire and Inquisition torture to compel men to give their adherence to human institutions. But the real lover of truth and righteousness will obtain from these evil days of the past, lessons quite at variance with those the Christian Statesman would have us learn. He will learn the lessons of religious toleration, of civil and religious liberty, of granting to every man his rights according to the dictates of his own conscience. These are the true lessons which we should learn from the past. These are the lessons which the American colonists sought to demonstrate to the world, and which they have given to their children, in Canada and the United States alike, as a precious heritage.