PICTURES ON SUNDAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 5

PICTURES ON SUNDAY

BAPTIST CHURCH OBJECTS

; A resolution .protesting against Sunday ,- ;-; pictures;'was ■ passed at- the Sunday morn- • iug service at the .lalana'^ Say/ ; 3aptist ; Church, and. has been forwardedl;to tji«l Mayor. The resolution ■ reads tiSioil6wKS-~ ; "The members .and ■ adherv:rit«' -of; tg* , Island Bay Baptist Church -iesire to ex--press deep appreciation 'of ;• the noble seryices of "the Mayor,; Mr.' T.C. A. Hislop, in connection'with the Mayor's Fund fop the' relief of distress,. And. vr«' assure' th« Mayor of our sympathy: wita in' th« embarrassment caused '.by. 'the lapk . -offunds sufficient'to: meet':/the 'urgent de«" mahds of the, needy. ;But 'we-earneatly' beg his Worship' not 'to' sanction ' Hha opening of -the'picturejtheatreai 6n'Sun-'| days as a means of augmenting'-the relieffund. This, we believe, would:inflict serious spiritual, damage on-interests vital ;t» the moral well-being" of- the- ,city, -afld," further, would react against the interest* ; of:the • fund. In making' this protest,' '<■*?« '■' respectfully point 'ont tbat thej-chnrches', have been foremost in •co-operating i?ith'' the Mayor's organisation:for the\Telief *o&. distress,, and we pledge ourselves' toI con* • tirme :t6 do all in our power to help."' • A similar resolution was passed at both services' of the' Berhampore' Baptut Church; ■■'■'.- •■■'-. ■v-1...-." '"' ■' ;; ":