SUNDAY HIKING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 234, 3 October 1932, Page 6

SUNDAY HIKING.

Your correspondent "Interested" may hare touched the point, as Pastor Sharp has 6tated, but I am afraid that the latter correspondent lias missed it completely. Rightly every man and woman should and does possess religious liberty to worship or not, but unfortunately Christian worship is on the wane. It is, however, the duty o£ every Christian parent to encourage the keeping of Sunday sacred, as it is upon Christianity alone that the British Empire and its civilisation has been built, and although the individual is at liberty to go hiking or indulge in any other form of recreation on a Sunday, yet the Christian should save from temptation the less ardent. Many of our young folk would lose the benefit of their early Christian training, including regular church attendance, if they fall to Sunday hiking, etc. It would appear that Pastor Sharp's point is not so much the hiking as the day we should keep holy, Saturday or Sunday. Admittedly there is no Scriptural warrant to keep Sunday'holy, but there is also no warrant to keep Saturday as the seventh day of the week. As this is my first and last letter on the subject, I will anticipate Pastor Sharp's reply by stating that when God placcd His on the seventh day that day commenced at Eden. Now our day commences in the middle of the Pacific. Further, what God demanded at Sinai was fulfilled by Christ, and what we now give we give voluntarily. Christendom has adopted Sunday as a day for worship. The law of the land has endorsed that day. Let the Christian preserve it. NOT A PARSON.