"EXCELSIOR" AND SABBATHBREAKING.
To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cboss. Sib, — I see in your issue of this day a letter signed "Excelsior," in which the writer strongly condemns vhe conduct of the, postal authorities in closing the English mail on Sunday. If " Excelsior" will consider for a moment he will see that the public are as much to blame for the practice as the Government ; and as long a3 they countenance postal Sabbathbreaking, so long will it be carried on. The remedy is, to a very great extent, in the hands of the religious part of the community ; but if they, and more especially the clersjy and officebearers of churches, avail themselves of the privileges of the custom, it is absurd to expect others to* refuse to do so. Let " Excelsior," and those of his opinion, refuse to post or receive letters through the post on the Sabbathday, and also endeavour to persuade others to follow their example, and it is highly probable that the Post-office authorities, seeing that the benefits derived from Sunday work are not appreciated by the greater- part of the inhabitants of the city, will abolish a custom totally unnecessary, and contrary to all Scripture precepts. — I am, &c, R. H. D. Auckland, April 7, 1866.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2723, 9 April 1866, Page 5
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"EXCELSIOR" AND SABBATHBREAKING.
Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2723, 9 April 1866, Page 5
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