SUNDAY ACTIVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 58, 18 September 1928, Page 4

SUNDAY ACTIVITIES

CHURCHKS' PROTEST Possibly as the result of a discussion at a recent meeting of the Upper Hutt Borough Council on the wisdom or otherwise of allowing cricket to be ployed on Sundays at Maidstone Park, a letter was received by the council last night stating that at a meeting of representatives of tho four churches of tipper Hutt—the Church of England, Presbyterian, and Methodist Church, and Salvation Army— called to consider the use of Sunday, the iollowing resolution was passed:—"We recognise that Sunday is a Christian roligioua festival instituted for the double purpose of rest and of public worship of God in Jesus Christ. We therefore regret to suo the increased disregard for theso uses, and we ask those who control public life in Now Zealand, and especially in our own borough, to protect tho (sanctity of Sunday, and to discourage all that tends to excitement and the neglect of worship. We do this on tho following grounds:—(l) Wo feel that this disregard is not iv the highest interests of the community. It means that an ever-increasing number of people are employed in providing facilities for others, find are deprived of the recognised dny of rest. (2) The effect of this growing tendency to secularise the Lord's Day upon the growing minds of our youth is calculated to lessen c. reverence for and (hie obesrvanco of one day in seven as one divinely ordained for rest and worship. Wo pledge ourselves to set the example of using Sunday as it ought to be used." 'l'lio council received tho letter without comment.