enings, and the presses
during the nights, so that the sermons of Sunday can reach the
heathen on Monday. The servants of the rich are denied the privileges
of the sanctuary. The coachman sits on the box out-doors, while
his employer kneels in church preparing himself for the heavenly
chariot. The iceman goes about on the holy day, keeping believers
cool, they knowing at the same time that he is making it hot for
himself in the world to come. Christians cross the Atlantic,
knowing that the ship will pursue its way on the Sabbath. They
write letters to their friends knowing that they will be carried
in violation of Jehovah's law, by wicked men. Yet they hate to
see a pale-faced sewing girl enjoying a few hours by the sea; a
poor mechanic walking in the fields; or a tired mother watching
her children playing on the grass. Nothing ever was, nothing ever
will be, more utterly absurd and disgusting than a Puritan Sunday.
Nothing ever did make a home more hateful than the strict observance
of the Sabbath. It fills the house with hypocrisy and the meanest
kind of petty tyranny. The parents look sour and stern, the children
sad and sulky. They are compelled to talk upon subjects about
which they feel no interest, or to read books that are thought good
only because they are so stupid.

_Question_. What have you to say about the growth of Catholicism,
the activity of the Salvation Army, and the success of revivalists
like the Rev. Samuel Jones? Is Christianity really gaining a strong
hold on the masses?

_Answer_. Catholicism is growing in this country, and it is the
only country on earth in which it is growing. Its growth here
depends entirely upon immigration, not upon intellectual conquest.
Catholic emigrants who leave their homes in the Old World because
they have never had any liberty, and who are Catholics for the same
reason, add to the number of Catholics here, but their children's
children will not be Catholics. Their children will not be very
good Catholics, and even these immigrants themselves, in a few
years, will not grovel quite so low in the presence of a priest.
The Catholic Church is gaining no ground in Catholic countries.

The Salvation Army is the result of two things--the general belief
in what are known as the fundamentals of Christianity, and the
heartlessness of the church. The church in England--that is to
say, the Church of England--having succeeded--that is to say, being
supported b