SUNDAY OBSERVANCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1945, Page 3

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE

BISHOP SIMKIN’S ADDRESS. AUCKLAND, September 18. Laxity in the proper observance of Sunday and also in self-discipline was commented upon by the Bishop of Auckland, Biship Simkin, in an address to the Anglican Synod tocloy. .j in New Zealand, he said, the habit; of indifference towards Sunday, had grown beyond all bounds in the past few years. Formerly, when the hours of work were much longer, there was some justification for using Sunday for needed recreation and for a change from the stress of toil, but, today, when so many young people did not work on Saturday and when holidays had been greatly increased, justification for making Sunday a day oi Measure only had been removed. -“There is‘a further clanger creeping into our mode of life,” continued the Bishoo. “This is the growing custom of making Saturday night the time for all kinds of amusement, dancing, and the like, with the result that on Sunday many people, especially young people, are too pnysicallv tb’ed and mentally and spiritually unprepared to observe their duty to 6od. , Youth to-day is buoyant and adventurous, and tne world owes it much,. but licence is not liberty. Licence is rampant today and has assumed alarming tendencies. Boys and girls of New Zealand’ To-day is your opportunity, but it is also your day of responsibility and you will never fulfil youi responsibility or grasp opportunity by the avenues of licence. By the spirit of God, gladly self imposed, you will attain your true goal and render a service the world so urgently needs Torching on the atomic bomb, the Bishop said that the bomb might be described as the release of a natuiai force The defence against natural force’ would only be found in a fores which, whs supeinatuicu., Oui only, hope of salvation is to bung to b°ar upon every nation and people the supernatural force of the grace of Goa,” he said.