THE SABBATH.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12491, 18 March 1909, Page 1

THE SABBATH.

No sane man would wish to see the present liberty people enjoy on Sundays degenerate into, license, which in some countries allows horse-racing, bicycle-racing, and so forth to monopolise attention on that day. It is not inconsistent with the conventions of religion that society should wish to spend as many hours as it possibly can on Sunday in the enjoyment of innocent games and sunshine, that it should seek the open spaces and: g.o " down to the sea and rivers. I'liera ideas do not conform with the thttered garments of many old conventions, but they represent the cv. lotion of general thought which f jects the idea that a,ny man" or wo.ni.i is better for making Sunday a day,; of gloom. And it has to be remei-j Loved that England was never more :; fgious than in tlie days when the .vi.co manhood of the nation- was ''Vein 'id by law to .spend part of each Knml.i : practising the use of arms for the national defence. - It was a whoiavwe and salutary custom which n.ight l*e revived with profit.— Welivi^'.on "Times."