SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 16

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

gj rj —it is with reluctance I enter this controversy, but one remark of Simili Modo" calls for comment. It is that lie stands outside warring sects (how ni ce }> "yet is a humble follower of Christ. If your correspondent had read the Gospel of which he claims to be a humble, i.e., obedient, follower, he must know that "he who would be my disciple let him deny himself and follow me," not in tryinc; to make the best of both worlds, and therefore making a of both, but like the Christ whom tie professes to follow, "I came not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent mu. "Simili Modo" thinks it unreasonable to expect people to give up one hour to give God the thanks due to Him. Did he ever read: "Could ye not watch with me one hour." Hyinn 403, Ancient and Modern, will be sung in many churches next Sunday. I commend one verse specially to all who profess call themselves Christians: — In our joys and in our sorrows, Days of tail and hours of ease. Still He calls in cares and pleasures, That we love Him more than these.

I do not hope to alter "Simili Modo's" opinion, but perhaps someone may be strengthened by the above. Medical men tell us that their greatest trouble is with people who want to be healthy and yet break all the rules of good living. Folks want to be made well not by denying themselves their sins of living, but by a 3s 6d bottle of medicine. Good; health cannot bo obtained at that easy price, and the ills of the Church are not going to be cured by swallowing the Lord's Supper in the early hours of the morning so that we can have the rest of the dav to wear out our souls and bodies at play. The Sabbath was made for man, for his use, not for his* abuse,, that he may do his duty the better on the oth'er six days and have time to help himself to prepare for that day when all our work will be judged. From that judgment there will be no appeal. No, not even to Canon James. For the race is won by one and one and never by two and two. Another Churchman.