Disgusting People With Religion

A great deal of harm, in our jadgnoent is done by presenting tho roquisilion of Bolf-deciul which the gospel niakes, n a manner not only foreign but in dowurigbt coDtradictiou to the spirit of true religión. For exuinple, one of onr evangélica! ininis'erij is reported to have eaitJ, last Sunday, to tho yomtg people of his congregation in Iown or somuwhero elso : " It is NüssoD week, aud you will be tesftpted to spend your money in tickets ■n 1 carriages, but you shouldn't chea! the Lord in this way." Without doabt, youog peoplo wnsto nooi ey íd carriages, and so doing, clienl ncionly the Lord, bat thumselves, and ornetimea their employers. But thut an i xtravagance of tliia sort, it' it bc such, eho.ld be ccupled with a little outlay for he privilege occurring only two or tbreu tiuies in a tnau's lite, in hearing th greatest vocalist, perhaps, of the world, is to affront the coiumou eense o: all Lut narrow-minded ascética. It is high time that all this arrant nousense on the ooufl et of religión and the pleas uros of art thould come to an eud, ant that foxee who haven't any tuils bIiouIc ceaso to deern thoso foxes atheietio or God-forsaken who happen to havo a ful