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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10996, 20 June 1901, Page 4

: kindly reference- to- the doings of guests. But ] ' iiie A/Uxe Mid jtluchbis aie luore tuuT guea'is. I 'xiiey sue - the proxies, oi ttta iuaag- _ ana Queen oi .cagiand, epecfUqr com-; ( { ate ' hete ja ineir cjywcjiy" , 'as "cttiH j iuiure lung and Queen. "JL-uey represent, mc I ideuis of tat nauon faciore and { beiore succeeding centuries, lueir every "act I cocntituitsa a precedent wtuoh wul be folibwed ) ! ior generations in these colonies. They ep-' < I pear Bβ EUKlels" or virtue sxsd. of ccmennesaf i They have indeed borne tneniselYes n&biy, ' j i vuii prudence sn'd ynta dignity, j They hare drawn to themselves the iove of r theao warm-hearted people*. It is," therefore, deeply to lie' deplored tnafc in' one important [ particular, In the eyes 'of the whole 'nation, 1 at -the supreme moment "of their' public" Hie hitherto, they should have violated ths law-of Christ, the holiest traditions of iheir ancestors, the- precept and esasipl* of Queen -Tictoriii, and the teaching of their own religions advisers, and given an example of Ssbfcathf breaking that Will he quoted here lor tfwsir s excuse by the enemies of religion. For if it ■ is proper for (he Duke to go a Sunday picnic ' v.p the rivpj , , it is proper for our lads to play Sunday goif, or cricipt, or football-, for our volunteers to hold Sunday military displays and sham fighte; for our men to organise Sunday shooting parties: for our -wives' and children to countenance Sncday bands. Very soon, end witji perfect social propriety, we rimlL like the French, make Sunday the greet day for horse'racing, or, like the Spaniards, for bull-fights. And like- Spain, or Komfl, or Babylon, or Tyre..Great Britain shall yapieh . fTom the empire of the wprld. THE MAN "FHAT MARRIED THE DUKE- ' The Fourth Commandment, is plain. Whatever aigutnens may set it asi.de will'set aside . all the ten. Therefore, no man who claims to be in the least a Cnxistian will disown it. What he does ia to plead that his interpretation is different from ours. "You are Houndhead and Puritan: I &m Cavalier and Church of" England." It is, therefore, important to "' observe the interpretation put on the commandment by the chief prelate of the English < Church, the man that married the Duke, the ' late dr. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury. "One of the great trials of the present day is what thp upper classes are- doing on Sunday. ' .... The upper glasses' are bo-having very ill to everybody beneath them. They are oppressing their servants, and making it impossible for th,eir servants to have the mea-ns of {■rracfi, acd sctjins an unfortunate example to those who are hovering in the choice bptwpcji - G-cd and fbe world. ... It-will go ill it the Sunday abuses are not stopped. I.t is a ridiculous fashion which is "coming in from . France—that of pretending that you may go to the Holy Communion in the morning, and have the rest of the day to yourselves. But thet ia not old France. It is one of the modem > innovation? of Romanism, of which I hs-ve • speaking. Anyone who will go to the old libraries and lodk at the memoirs of the i , gnod people who lived in France, at the time before f.'-.e Reformation, can satisfy himself of this. Ho will find tfiat the Sunday si thp-t time was snent exactly as we want it to be sneitf in Englajid. It is ridiculous to talk about Puritanism hnvin/j spoiled England, • t pud ras3e chill SuEdays for us. It is not so. The old observance pi Sunday oye-r all the Christian world was tihttt it was to be a thief and holiness, and'hs.px>ines». Moke people as happy sa you can on Sundays, but it does not make 'them happy to crueh them ' out of all shype. and to keep footmen and - butlers at work for large late dinners, and to i pre®3 the poor boys of the villages into flic , gervics of £olf. What do we find when we furs to I*3*l, land which we call Assyria? There, v.-o f'ud n, people who havp been left alone from the Veginnir.ei in a, country where there _ o'jee a great and magnificent church, though . J Jhersi ia now on'y a poor remnant:, and tkezc j you will fhnd the same sort of Sunday as we ■ j desire to have here. You cannot get a inw: ly <ove or money to carry a, package or gosau , errand for you on Sunday until the evening seryico is over. And that is what has beec inherited from the old apostolic traditions of his father. That is a tiuo {Sunday If the upppr classes would set the example which they set in the interval between the very " careless Sundays at the end of last century ■ and the Sundays of the present time, we ehou'd have our Sundays well observed. Among the upper classes, when I was a boy. there "wore as a. rule, no Sunday dinner parties, and the families went to church, and the Sunday ws spent quietly. Many of us remsmbej; iha-t interval, in which Sunday wag not at alj badly kept; but tbe tendency upon us now is to go back to the old dissipated Sunday of last cei!tury. I be'devo that if the upper claesea would take tbeir proper place in this -matter all else would be right. I believe that., with the es-reptic-n of eontae political associations of working men, if you take an average working moK i ialk to him about, the subject, you will fin*! t that ho knows well eoo-jph that seven days,' amusement Tueins seven dfiys' work idr him. , . . . . We roay take it for granted thai we ere supporting the cause of the woTkina men if we do our utmost to prevent Sunday desecration." THE PICNIC A BLOW AT THE THRONE. Wβ know how completely the old Queer: agreed with her Archbishop, and how she com--1 pellcd the keeping of the Sabbath,in her ov.-r. . household. Her piety wae unconsciously he; noblest policy. The Brdiiisb' Empire is v. Christian Empire. It is founded upon religion. Therefore by piety the Queen confirmed tht foundations of oijr Enipiro a>B they had nevei liean confirmed before. She drew to the thronf j the loyalty of the ends of the earth. It war vrhen her people were imitating her that th? 1 espanedon of the Empire took ploce. You noted tne strees the Archbishop put upon the ' '■interval' , between the caxeless Sunda.3-3 of now ' end the dissipated Sundays of 4 century a#o Through these dissipated Sundays we lost the United Staios. In the "interval" -we made up what we bad lest. The, men who gave u>Tnoclern India, the H&vriocJcs and the Tjawreacts, wore pious men. who kept the Sabbath. r So were'the men who founded New Zealand. , In ISSI, Pr. Burns wrote of Otago:—"lt if I truly delightful, and it is a subject of thf < deepest tlhankfulness to Uβ that our Sabbaths are so perfectly still, and that during tbc hours of public worship not a creature is (p be seen in the streets."' The Diik*. therefore in thus openly violating Hhe Sabbath ftias dealt a blow at his own future throne. That throne does not need more blows just now. The Duke is here to ward off blows, for thf last war has shaken it. We «hudder to think wha-t might have happened but for the kelp . of'tbe-'colomas- The recent despatches of the generals and the debates in the Lords am? T.he Commons do not make inspiring readme. It is not plecsant to find General Buller indicate that he- despaired of Ladysraith, and complain that his subordinates lacked initialvo ani independence in action, while his rank and file lacked independent intelligent action. It is not pleasant to find Lord Roberts bteme Buller for not seeing that his orders were obeyed; and lament thai when he arrived there /woe really no transport, corps', and that unless he had org&nised one he would not have reached Kimberley tor another month. The army has received many humiliations of a kind no-.Eng-lishma.n has known for a- century. After ail our efforts and sacrifices tho officer who, as a junior, so hemmed in our men at Nicolson's NcR tlhat they had to •urrender—the first- and greatest dieaster'of the campaign—is stiil keeping a quarter of a million of our troops pursuins: his few thoxisonds. It has not been reasuifring to find Lord Woleeley and Lord Landedowne oxposing their common incompetence in tho House of Lords, or to find Mr Brodrick confessing in the House of Commons tiho unworthiness of the War Office, ard at last Mr Balfour ha* owned that at one terrible moment, there- were left in hand only a few thousand rounds of email ammunition, Ihoush factories wen* -srorkinff night and dey. Now'none of these things escape our enemifs. Tt is well for us to walk very hnmblv, to hav<*_days of humiliation surh «* the Qw* coromajided, when thingn looked blankest. It »s time i<x us to prop the throne by srivine frgpS -to +3ie Teli?iom foundrtVons of our aqcio'iy and our constitution. A BLOW AT'raE PEOPLE'S PUBITY. - , The- Duke has iui moio than the throne. The one biot. on these young colonies 13 impurity, increasing isnaiomUty. "We remember tne ftwtul figures the > r ev/ fcouth Wale* Government a, ytiir or two ago had to suomi*. to the nation. l«ast Xevr \ear the "Hawke'a Bay Keraid" published a return 101 190U, complied from his official books ,by "ft county registrar oi births in the North Island of New Zea,i*ad,"' a nui the "Herald" vouched ior as "incsi careful and reliable ia his facts." The births in hia district for tho year were 82, of which 56 were first birtha. Of these 56 all bat 11 were illegitimate or within nine months of marriage 5 . Our Supreme Courts are deluged with such cases as the law can touch. The very juries are- infected. The hehaviour of two juries and of the Crowa counsel *t Wellington constituted vrh&t the Chief Justio* called a miscarriage of justice. The verdict of another jury in. Auckland wu considered by the judge aa encouragement to crime. Now you can't put down immorality with the lash: it ie only certain forme "of impurity that the "oat" can reach. Yon can't put it down by education. M*ny of the beet educated nations of the past have been the most immoral. Only one thing on earth has ever been able to stem the flood of immorality, and th*t is Revealed HeSfricua, ■ the religion of the Psalme end the Goepela, And you can't have revealed religion without ",bo S»bba*h. They stand or fcl) together. "The Son' of VL&a is Lord even of the Sabbath day." Therefore the Duke in turning the 9abfc»*h. <ato » day t<4 T>l«wtire b»e dealt a blow at th» most powerful restraist that can be put upon impurity, and bas opened the shucee in all iniquity. . r WITH OUB^COXKIVAK"CE. We must blame sot the Duke slone. but oureelree also. After *H. kittgs reflect tie 'character of their peoples. Princes *t' tie