The British Sunday

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 250, 18 July 1931, Page 20

The British Sunday

“The time seems to call for something like a concordat between the votaries of a strict Sunday and the advocates, of relaxation on Sunday,” writes Bishop J. E. C. Welldon in the “Empire Review.”

“Few, if any, good citizens desire the complete abolition of Sunday as a day of worship and rest, or even the complete assimilation of the Sunday in England to the Continental Sunday. But few would now wish to deprive the people of all occupations or relaxations outside the. Churches.

“The English Sunday has lost no- | thing of its proper and permanent g value. It is still, as it has ever been, X one of the inspiring safeguards and (t ennobling influences in the national S life. It cannot indeed be maintained | in the twentieth, century as It was, or . | has been thought to have been, main- : talned in.the seventeenth century. ;

.“But it can, by 1 general goodwill, be adapted to modern needs without the sacrifice of its distinctively sacred character. Whatever may be sanctioned, now or hereafter, as desirable or even tolerable in the ever-changing circumstances of .modern life, no good citizen will, I think, desire that Sunday, as a day of worship and rest, a day separate In its character from all other days of the week, should not continue to be the inviolable heritage of Britons In Great Britain and over all the British Empire.” :