RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE.
[To ME EDITOR OF TITS SPEOTATOR.1
Sfa,—The suggestion of " G." has much force. It may be well illustrated by a fact with which I am acquainted. Nearly fifty years ago, taking a house of business, the proprietor, anxious for his servants' welfare, instituted family worship. All but the head man were fresh hands, with whom it was in the terms of their engagement that they should attend. It was important, if possible, to retain the older servant, but quite obvious, from his hostility to any religious sentiment, that he would resent either dictation or any milder overtures. A. -general notification of the hours was therefore given, and no notice taken of his absence. After some while, he one morning suddenly caught up a chair, and exclaiming that, as nobody seemed to care anything about his soul, he thought it was quite time to look after it himself, he carried it to the room of meeting, and ever after attended, with marked and permanent
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