SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20962, 27 February 1930, Page 2

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

TO THE EDITOR. • Sir, —The all-wise beneficent Creator reserved "one day in seven as a “ day of rest and worship.” Experience has proved the. Divine wisdom in so doing, as man and beast, even our implements and bowling greens, are all the better of the day of rest. During the French revolution an effort was made to abolish this day of rest, _ and at the present. time Soviet Russia, in its futile -war against the Almighty God, has vainly tried to do without this day of rest. It is found absolutely necessary for man, beast, and everything to have a day to rest and recuperate —especially so in this advanced modern time, when working men and women are treated like human beings, their hours of work being ■ regulated and their remuneration enabling them to live with a measure of comfort and ease, and not as serfs cqmpelled-to work Sunday and week J day alike,_ for whatever wage was given them, as is now done in Soviet Russia. The Continental Sunday is observed with our fellow-men and women kept on the ceaseless grind, without respite, at sweating wages, is not a state of affairs we would wish to see superseding our restful Sundays, but this will inevitably come when we commence breaking down the, barriers which are set to preserve our day of rest. If we start “sports picnics” and Sunday trains, our Government leading the van, it quite naturally follows that there will be Sunday bowling matches, and, later on, race meetings, and Sunday rest will be a thing of the past. We will have the Continental Sunday, and later the Soviet Russian Sunday. I am writing this with deliberation, for it looks as if the time was approaching when we must take sides' for or against the Almighty God. He has given this day as a day of restand worship; in fact, He claims it as His own day. He expects all who own His sway to observe it as His day and even deny themselves what may seem lawful pleasure, so that this day of rest and worship may be preserved intact, that we may still hold our proud boast of being the free- unfettered people of the great British nation and not miserable, down-trodden serfs like those of that . Government which is vainly warring against the Almighty and destroying His day of rest.—l am,’ etc., _ * „ , G. Stringer. Oamaru, February 25.