SUNDAY WORK ON RAIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13835, 23 February 1907, Page 12

SUNDAY WORK ON RAIL.

PROTEST BY CHRISTIAN EJJDEAYOUR UNION.

The following protest has been sent by tho Executive of the Dunedin and District Christian Endeavour Union lo tho Minister of Railways:—

AVe, the undersigned, on behalf of the young people of the Dunedin and District Christian Endeavour Union, tlesiro to call your attention to the repeated encroachments on the sacredness of the Sabbath bj the employment of large numbers of men on various alterations to the railway in this district from time to time. We are of the opinion that much of the so-called special work or necessary work now done on Sundays could be done on some other day. We feel we ought to enter our protest against making the day of Test a convenience. We trust that you will use the influence of your positiun to prevent any further encroachment on the sacrcdness of tho day of rest. Wc believe that the Fourth Commandment is one of the Ten, and that it is as necessary for a nation's well-being as the iCinth. He who robs himself or his neighbour of the • necessary rest and moral strengthening that the Sabbath brings, cheats botli God and man. AVe ieel that the colony's best interest demands our protest against the wanton violation of the sacredness of the Sabbath. T. Tresthail, President. C. W. Jacobson, Secretary, « D. Williams, Treasurer,