IMPERILLING SUNDAY.
GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS.
" BANK HOLIDAY EVERY WEEK."
Proposing at the Primitive Methodist Conference at Leicester, recently, a resolution pleading for a more reverent observance of Sunday, the Rev. T. Robson (Newcastle) declared that Sunday games and amusements were imperilling Sunday as a day of worship. In the continuous stream of traffic carrying people to and from the country and seaside he feared there were many Primitive Methodists. It seemed to him that they had a bank holiday once a week, and he was not sure whether some bank holidays were not more religiously observed than some Sunday?. If people were prepared to begin their devotions at six in the morning, and observed Sunday until noon, he might be willing to allow them to do very much as they pleased for the rest of the day. There was much opposition to this view. The Rev. J. Lockhart (Birmingham) protested strongly against the new doctrine that proposed to divide the Sabbath into a morning of worship arid evening of pleasure. He deplored the habit of those who went to church once on the Sabbath, and then spent the afternoon and evening in pleasure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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193IMPERILLING SUNDAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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