The Christian Work of the 20th ultimo, in speaking of “The Lenten Season,” says that “while it is true that religion is not a matter of the observance of special days or weeks or months, it is also true that from the time of its very first organization the Christian church has set apart a specific time to the worship of God. This it did when it substituted Sunday for the Jewish Sabbath.” The parallel is a striking one. Both the forty days of Lent and the Sunday festival are pagan in origin, and, as Christian institutions, rest upon the same authority—that of the traditions of the church—an authority purely papal. The Christian Work further says: “The fact that the Lenten season is growing in favor, and that now many Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists, and others delight to join with their Episcopal and Lutheran brethren in observing Lent, shows that the season meets a real want; and that it does do this is evidenced by the fact that for nearly three centuries it has been found so useful by two such bodies of Christians as the Episcopalians and Lutherans.” But what better are these two bodies because of Lent? The spirituality of 40 days ought to be that of 365 days; and if it is not, the lack of it for 325 days will prove a similar lack of it for 40 days. Well may the Lord say to Israel now as to Israel of old, “Who hath required this at your hand?” See Isa. 1: 11-15.