DAIRY FARMING,

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12290, 24 June 1903, Page 6

DAIRY FARMING,

To the Editor. , -. : Sir, — YcVjur correspoTailewb u 'Anglo' f Saxon"- has -touched a 'sore spot/ Strange in that very practical / boofc the first idolatry of the Israelites was "The GoHea Calf."- It -seems to me we cannot boast much of our - religion. 1 took a rotimd • of the chfurohes on last Wednesday evening and it appears- all the ehttrehes simjullajieqttsly jbod'd tiheir only weekly service then. It is needless to say chjirdh. is the mos^. unpopular of any kind "of meeting judging by results, for I do? not expect over §0 adult males were present at> A!ng?litean, Presbyterian, ! Wesleyan and Salvation Army. Query?. Wc<uld emancipated dairy factory I hands siperid ' thjeir Siuirdays in a religious way? Gxlv ahhirches i always state, their desire to be practical .and yet prevent religiCusly^iniclinefl people, 'from haying more than, one -week night service, .by holding meetings simult-aneofusly. Sjurely this cannot be in the interests of religion. I stoiuld like to "see those week services gQinething- different anti something- lively. Eacin one the cliib pro tern for ifre live Christians of the place to malic a nuniic heaven. I believe there is a mimic Parliament now, on. Fancy an attempt to paint the lily, compared to a New Zealantl Patli amenta , As to Sab*ba%h. vrvxk, it is evident if a gooM . sprinkling of the Seventh Day Adventists existed wor-k coukl be yloiie ,by ordinary -Christians of, Saturday; while the- Adjvdntists would do'tho Sunday. , Bo tli "inigli^ profane the Sabbath ami be blameless-." The, Jewish Sabbath! only existed from Sutarise to sunset and work might 'entirely cease "during fhis time, feeing- done on Suptfay. after tfiinset. "The. despised Mahqmedaiis during' the 'fast of Bamaden'.(like^oWf lent) eat nothing frcon sunrise. to $u(n- _ set. There is no. shutting pur. eyes to the fact "the \6ve of m&ny ias waxed coB," ax(d; ? th.c text sayti "Because inicturty -/shall the. 10-vV of many 'Mail wax '/ coW." . T^he pi'esent condition .6f dairy woriv,, . must foe highly irritant tQ the, o^ujDCh: militant/ The partjnt ,ol all the jcom;flpaiidment9 is constant^. BraTveri,^ that one before which ."remember", shows, its. antiqluity. Its reminding q| heavenly a*est as the one .. great thought renewed each seventh- day during life; and yet we orowti into our ohiirches onV Sunday to hear those command merits dhimed out "and we rapeat- the resiponse aft«r each /'Lo^cl halve / --mercy upon "us antcl incline pur hearts to keep this law."-— I am, etc., PILGRIM.