The Sunday Question.

"And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man." Mark ii: 27.

Hear a parable: A farmer's boy was reproved by his mother for frolicking in the barn one Sunday afternoon. His excuse was, "I was hunting for hen's eggs." "Never mind the eggs," said his mother; "we can let them alone till to-morrow." "But, mother," was the prompt reply, "you will eat eggs the hen laid on Sunday; so what's the difference?"

The moment you touch the Sunday question you are sure to stir up a brisk lot of difficulties. A., as he walks complacently to the barber shop Sunday morning, reproaches B. for reading the Sunday newspaper; while B., who will not even shave himself on Sunday, looks out of the window from behind his paper wondering at the inconsistency of A. C. bewails the coldness of D., who goes out with his family to drive Sunday afternoon; and D. wonders in turn what kind of religion C.'s is, which takes him so devoutly to church while his clerks are at work in his office, or his workmen in his mill. E. rebakes F. for going to the postoffice, and F. retaliates

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