SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
DECLINE IN ENGLAND. LONDON. Nov. 20. The Congregational Union is perturbed at the rapid decline in Sunday observance. The Rev. G. Darlaston declares that attendance at church had practically lost the support of public opinion. The defection was most noticeable in the young manhood .during th war. Britain was moving rapidly towards a continental Sunday. The Rev. Morton Stanley urged the need for a theological restatement of the Christian faith to meet the pest-war hunger for intellect, and the insatiable desire to know as voiced by Mr. H. G. Wells, Sir Arthur Co nan Doyle, and others.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17337, 8 December 1919, Page 7
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