In Convocation on Wednesday, the Bishop of Exeter presented a
petition from the Lord's Day Observance Society, complaining of the frivolous Sunday amusements of the rich, and suggested that as the Bishops in 1862 protested against Sunday excursion- trains for the poor, they would do well now to make the same kind of protest against the Sunday entertainments,—river- excursions, and ostentatious indulgences generally,—of the rich. Certainly the same rule should be applied to rich and poor ; but what is the use of strengthening, or attempting to strengthen, the conventionalities which suppress open disregard of religions feeling P What you want to do is to deepen and stimulate the religious feelings themselves, not to coop up the irreligious feelings. Unless the Episcopal Bench can effect the former, they will not do anything worth the effort by upbraiding the rich for their Sunday amusements.
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