SABBATH DESECRATION.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13162, 8 July 1908, Page 3

SABBATH DESECRATION.

* (SPECIAL TO "THE PKESS.") DUNEDIN, July J. The Rev. D. Borrie, at this forenoon's mooting of the Presbytery, refer->d to the inorease of Sabbath descent ion, and mentioned that it was high time the Christian Church took the matte* up emphatically. Sunday football w;«s becoming rampant, and everyone from the Premier downwards was co"uinitiug Sabbath desecration by travelling on Sundays and so forth. He had communicated with members of the Council of ChxiTches, and they were in, favour of united action being taken. The Anglican Bishop and Dean Fitchett were both willing to work in conjunction with the Presbyterian Church to do something to effect improvement. Instead of doing what was done at Home—issuing a manifesto from all the churches—each, church 6honld. act separately, but co-ordinately. "All the churches should take decisive action at the same time, and their efforts would 1 be more effective. The Rev. R. Fairmaid referred to the Otago Rugby Union's readiness to check disagreeable features of footballers' conduct, and said he was sure i that the Union would do all they could \ to put down playing on Sunday. He thought that the churches, especially those in the city, should dt> as much as they could to make provision to get visttiug teams to attend church services.