GOLF ON SUNDAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18388, 2 May 1923, Page 6

GOLF ON SUNDAYS.

Sir,—Mr. J. EL. Upton does not represent me fairly in Baying I was attempt. ' ; "'''' ing in- my ; letter to answer: the' question "Where' is God?" I never attempted to. - " limit the infinite, and if Elijah recognised .' ' God tin a f still small voice, that : doe*, not ' ' -' touch the question we are discussing "'" '.>. There appears no doubt— the ser- ' mon was heard or read—that the Rev : Canon James stated that Sunday motorists "•*■ '■ (and, incidentally Sunday golfers) ' were v '?' in the eye of God, guilty of black sin in' 1 "• taking such recreation, unless they" also attended God's' Houss on Sunday. It 8 ■' '''■ to _ such a statement I take exception V It is a gratuitous manufacture . of sins which don't exist. It is a presentation '"'* >\ of a Diety for man's worship with attri---' v ' butes utterly repugnant to man's nobler conception of such a Being, and my illus- •. >? trations were of situations where man might perchance faintly grasp such ttore worthy ideals, and not in answer to any such question as. "Where- is God'""''' If by the " still small voice." Mr. up. ; ton means conscience, and that we mav ■• *' not be far wrong in leading, that to guide •■• us, he is on dangerous ground. The RevCanon is not content to "leave it there," and I don't suppose thQ conscience of one Sunday motorist in ten ever whis- ; ':< pers that he is' doing wrong, while all the according to the sermon—he is ' • guilty of black sin, and will probabW die unrepentant of a host of black' sinsi he v didn't even know ho had committed. ■' „,./„, ' , ' _, J - Thornes. 231, Manukau Road, Parnell.