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 fresh fields and pastures new. Society may be, and is, undoubtedly to blame for its lax manner of treating religion and religious observances; but, with all its faults, it is not so blameworthy as those teachers of the Christian faith, whose lack of attention to its needs and perplexities help to make it the heaven-scorning, God-denying, heart-sore, weary, and always dissatisfied thing it is. Society's Sunday is merely a reflex of Society's own immediate mood—the mood of killing time at all costs, even to the degradation of its own honour, for want of something better to do!