THE QUIET SUNDAY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17208, 27 July 1921, Page 2

THE QUIET SUNDAY.

CONCERTS AND ADMISSION CHARGES. The Council of Christian Congregations, the new body formed as an extended development from the old Council of Churches, has addressed a letter to the City Council protesting against the disturbance of the quiet Sunday by the holding of Concerts on tne evening ef that day at which admission charges are made. The letter is as follows :■*- "It has come to our knowledge that an attempt is being made to break a good custom that has obtained in this city frpm its foundation. The custom we refer to is the quiet Sunday, and the threat against it is made by a band of musicians who are seeking the right to make a fixed charge for Sunday performances. "Our council desires to lodge a protest against the suggestion. We do not do so m a narrow spirit. We believe that quite apart from all religious interests, the quiet Sundav is a great civic asset. We believe that once the right is conceded of plying week-day avocations on Sunday on the ordinary terms the claimants for such a privilege will speedily wreck the day; they will be so numerous. ' "We urge that when the City Council permits sacred concerts on Sundays that they should insist that the door of the concert hall should be as free as the door of the church and that all offerings should he entirely voluntary'. We micht add that the churches have been giving up the custom of letting seats very largely because they hold that everything on Sundav should be freed from the commercial spirit. We believe that any departure from this, equitnble princinle will be resented by the citizens at large."