PLEA FOR SUNDAY GAMES.
The Rev. A. Newman, Vicar of St. Andrews, Whittlesea, who astonished some clergymen, and even laymen, by his ideal of amusements for country parishes at a Cambridgeshire Church Conference, is well known in Lincolnshire for his Liberal views. Calling at the vicarage, a Daily Chronicle interviewer was informed that the vicar was at the club, engaged in a game of whist. " With a cheery smile he welcomed me, and later we had a chat. 'Yes,' he said, ' I maintain there is no objection to any games on Sunday. If it is nob wrong on one day, it is not wrong on another, and 1 am entirely in favour of peoplo playing games on Sunday instead of loafing or playing pitch and toss.' From tho earliest the Church had advocated and upheld amusements, and has gone against the Puritanical view of the matter. One of the great causes of rural exodus into the towns is the comparative dulness of country life. The agricultural labourers have uo time for football or cricket during the week, being too tired at the end of a hard day's work.' For them he advocated Sunday games. " ' I consider the matter worth the most serious consideration,' ho concluded. 'We cannot force on men what they do not want. Wo must do things for them— be with them.' "
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 14
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224PLEA FOR SUNDAY GAMES. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 14
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