LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23717, 15 August 1942, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SUNDAY PARADES

Anxious.—Exceeds space limit. Digger, 1915.—Far exceeds space limit,

Sir— Mr McEldowney asserted at the meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery that there should be no more objwtion to compulsory training of the Home Guard on Sunday than to fighting on Sunday. The cases are not parallel. Fighting would be a necessity: compulsory training on Sunday is not. Yours > etc ” E.J.M. August 13, 1942.

Sir.—l read with interest the motion passed by the Oamaru Presbytery as reported in your issue of August 12. Now that compulsion to attend parades is in force, is it not possible for our officers of the Home Guard, along with the Minister of Defence, to stipulate that parades must be held on other days than the Lord’s Day. We have since the Victorian era become indifferent to the recognition of Gods day of rest. The Holy Ghost speaking through the mouth of the man of God has said: if thou turn away thy foot from the aaobath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable: and shalt honour Him, not doing; thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words. Then shait thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Isa. 58/13). Can we not then humble ourselves before God and submit our will to God’s will?— Yours, etc., GUARDSMAN. Akaroa, August 13, 1942.