PRAY AND PLAY
THE REV. J. C. BACON has induced something novel in the matter of church services at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Enfield, England. He has established what he calls "Sunday Sportmen’s” services. On the first day men in plus fours and flannels were strongly in evidence. Members of the Enfield Golf Club, lawn tennis players, and Boy Scouts were among the congregation. Sportsmen were invited to attend with golf clubs and tennis racquets, dressed ready to go to their games afterwards. “I think it is a good start, and I am satisfied,” said Dr. Bacon. “I don’t regard the hour of eleven as particularly sacred to religion, and therefore I feel that nine will give sportsmen an opportunity of attending church early, and then going on to their sport. "One fails to keep the Sabbath by what one does not do, as much as by what one does do.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 11
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151PRAY AND PLAY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 11
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