SUNDAY CRICKET.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11462, 28 December 1897, Page 3

SUNDAY CRICKET.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,—For the benefit of “ Protest ” (who is probably a Presbyterian) allow me to make some extracts from the American Catholic Quarterly Review of January, 1883: —“Nothing in the New Testament forbids work, travel, trade, amusement (not even the match Parnassus v. Mendip Hills!) on the first day of the week. There is nothing which implies such a prohibition. The day, as one especially set apart, had no authority but that of the Catholic Church; the laws requiring its observance were passed to enforce decrees of councils of the Catholic Church.” “For ages all Christian nations looked to the Catholic Church, and, as we have seen, the various States enforce by law her ordinances as to worship and cessation of labour on Sunday. Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the Church, has no good reason for its Sunday theory, and ought, logically, to keep Saturday as the Sabbath, with the Jews and the Seventh Day Baptists. For their present practice, Protestants in general have no authority but that of a Church which they disown.” W. Lockhart, 8.A., of Oxford, in the .Toronto (Roman Catholic) Mirror, offered the following “ challenge ” to all the Protestants of Ireland, a challenge equally well calculated for the latitude of Amuri: —“ I do, therefore, solemnly challenge the Protestants of Ireland to prove by plain texts of Scripture, (1) that Christians may work on Saturday the old seventh day; (2) that they are bound to keep holy the first day, namely, Sunday; (3) that they are not bound to keep holy the seventh day also.” —I am, &c., OBSERVER.