SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 233, 1 October 1932, Page 8

SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS.

Mr. F. L. Sharp, secretary of the Religious Liberty Association, in his letter on the subject of hiking on Sunday in your paper of September 2S, has thrown out a challenge to those who believe the Scriptures to produce Scriptural warrant that God ever pronounced that day holy. Unices he is seeking for a controversy on whether the first day or the seventh day should be observed, a Sunday school infant could tell him by quoting the Old Testament. As for Jesus Christ, we read his saying in Matthew: "Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these Commandments and shall teacli men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven." The opinions of many great men might be given, but two will be enough. Thus Lord Beaconsfield said of it: "Of all Divine institutions, the most divine is that which secures a day of rest for man." And then Mr. Gladstone said, "The secret of his long life was that amid all the pressure of public cares he never forgot the Sabbath, with its rest for body and soul." And these men did not mean Sunday picnic excursions with their noise and lack of reverence for what the true moaning of the day should be if we had the faith of our fathers still, to whom we owe so much. PEECY STEVENS.