PUBLIC OPINION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9315, 15 August 1908, Page 7

PUBLIC OPINION.

«- — — FROM YESTERDAYS NEWSPAPERS. (By Telegraph.) THE SABBATARIAN QUESTION. Conditions in regard to this question have undergone an appreciable change during the last quarter ot a century., and Sabbatarians and rigid religionists of all kinds will have to learn afc least to understand tho change and .0 respect the liberty aliko in thought and in act of people who do not sharo their views. .On the other hand, all due respect should be paid to the sentiments of the large churchgoing eection of the community, even to the point of a tender toleration for venerable prejudices, but it is absurd to say that Sunday concerts and rational Sunday enjoyment in genernl aro an outrage upon th© susceptibilities of religious worshippers. — Dunedin "Star." SUNDAY CONCERTS. Ther. are sis evenings in tho week besides Sunday on which concerts can be held, and it is not suggested that there is any obstacle to their being held on some one or other of these evenings. The decision afc which the Council arrived on Wednesday, though it may be regretted "by a section in the community, will commend itself, we are suro, to everyone who-..values the day of rest and to everyone, also who is capable of taking a broad view of the subject. — " Otago Daily Times." THE AMERICAN FLEET. So far as present indications go it may be expected that the fleet in Auckland will remain for a long time in the Pacific. Our hope is that they will be there permanently, and in even stronger force. — " New Zealand Times." SCENERY PRESERVATION. The removal of dead timber from the edge of the bush and the falling of all old standing timber within the bush are the imperative precautions mentioned by the inspector . of scenic reserves in the general remarks on fires in his brief but businesslike report. — "Evening Pe***-' 1