THE USE OF SUNDAY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 237, 30 June 1908, Page 10

THE USE OF SUNDAY.

\ , : 9— .' , ARCHDEACON- SUGGESTS MILITAEY' • CAMPS. . . Archdeacon Crossley, in the course of a sermon-at St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne,, remarked that they required guidance from the Pan-Anglican Congress now being held at London on the problem of tho ■" Use of Sunday." He said: " I regard this as .one of the most practical questions of tho Church. All men wish for it still to be a day of rest, but rest to tho modern city man does not spell inactivity. Air-eserciso and change are his demands. /His necessaries of rest are from tho braiu excitement and strain of the week. ' • ' " We must beware of labelling all men irreligious who are not found in church. Somo of tho finest characters and best .citizens I have met are not found in the church, but their - qualities are not tho, consequence ' of this abandonment of worship, but iu spite of it. "Now this Commonwealth demands a citizen army. Could this experiment be tried. Barrack or camp the young 'recruits on Saturday afternoon. . Beforo turning in let , there bo a simple service, with a manly talk, from tho chaplain of their choice. Let t-hoir early morning Sunday assembly be tho holy sorvice, and let them spend tho day in tho happy disciplined exercise which goes to make tho man. , Thus from tho religious standpoint you obtain an evening and a morning worship, and yet joined with one of tho host forms of tho open-air rest. I venture to claim for this a divino principle, which might in time bo adopted and copied by tho Church."