CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12783, 2 October 1903, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

"F. B. F." quite agrees with "True Sport" regarding the footballers driving out to Waitati on Sunday, and says the way tho Sabbath is being kept is getting worse, in. stead of fetor. Ho alleges (hat men who drive out from town are sometimes not sober when they return, and drive (heir horses most shamefully, awl are r.ot only a danger : to 'themselves |b«t to others. "F, B. F," says that, as to footballers, ho has seen teams returning and tho way eomo of them vrero carrying on was no credit to tbem. "It is a very poor way to entertain visitors by using God's day of rest, and it 6ays very little for tho Rugby Union. Tho worktog ma.n is crying out for shorter hours and a general half-holiday, and then the ordinary holidays throughout tho year. And yofc some of them are mean enough to deprivo Ihoir fellow men of tho Sabbath. Also jsomo sportsmen (if they are gucli) use the Sabbath to go shooting, and if asked to leave tho farmers' land only insult him. If a man- is found in ibo back yard of a townsmam he is arrested, and why should they bj so insulting when asked to move off on Sundays? It will come 'to this: that they will be prevented from shooting at auy other timo. Let those who havo little or no regard for the Sabbath remember we aro not n'll heathens cut here; but we know tho •blessing of God's day of rest and how to observe it. Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap."