SUNDAY RECREATION.

Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 9

SUNDAY RECREATION.

TO THE EDITOK. Sir, —My comment on a particular passage of Scripture in my last letter being deleted and previously quoted by a correspondent as a justification lor Sunday pleasure is once more triumphantly advanced by him to establish his position. In referring to the said Scripture I pointed out that when Paul used the words “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days,” he was referring to the ceremonial Jaw, the “ law of ordinances.” Certain days were appointed by God as holy days, and certain duties were enjoined upon the children of Israel to bo observed by them. These days are not to be confounded with the seventh day Sabbath, which under ail circumstances was to be kept holy. If your readers will look up the twenty-third chapter ot Leviticus they will see there what Paul was speaking about. To quote the great apostle in defence of Sunday pleasure is rich indeed. lb is no credit to the City Council that regular bus sendees have been established on Sundays lor pleasure jaunting. It is a worthy example on the part ol the council. If these_ pleasure trips are carried out to satisfy a public want towards those who desire such outings, then on the same plea should the picture theatres be thrown open on Sunday evenings. To allow one and deny the other is rank hypocrisy. In both cases it is a matter oi “ profit,” and what is wrong and undesirable on the part of one cannot by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as right in the other. Wc cannot overestimate the great boon that Sunday is to us. and wc should be determined to jealously guard it. The sacred regard for the Lord’s Day will in the years to come, when the “evil days” are upon us, and when the “years draw nigh,” that we say “ J, have no pleasure in them,” bring no bitter memories. The church must exert such an influence in society that those men and women who make Sunday a day of idle pleasure will feel ashamed. That men in authority, some of them members of the different churches, can encourage in the citizens the desecration of the Lord’s Day is sad indeed.—-I am, etc., M. April 12.