THE WAIPA POST. THURSDAY, 28th MARCH, 1929. GOOD FRIDAY.

Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2286, 28 March 1929, Page 4

THE WAIPA POST. THURSDAY, 28th MARCH, 1929. GOOD FRIDAY.

THAT Good Friday is a sacred day is evidenced by the general agreement to keep it unprofaned. It is marked not only by the fact that there are services in the churches; but it is marked by the interdiction of what someone has mildly described as two of our prominent weaknesses —horseracing is not permitted on that day, and the liquor bars are closed. Nevertheless, the observance of Good Friday does not now take on the character of former days with the people of the world at large. The churches complain that people are growing less religious and more materialistic, and a truthful cynic: has remarked that if church attendance is to be regarded as the outward and visible sign of a religious spirit the evidence of failing faith might be deduced from conditions as they exist. There is, we think it will be admitted, a good deal of justification for the contention of a contemporary writer that while it would be more satisfactory and more reasonable if those who hold a creed were to live up to its ceremonies and observances, the fact that they neglect to do so is not always evidence that they are "irreligious." This civilisation, he claims, is permeated with the spirit of Christianity. It is in the blood of our civilisation and profoundly affects individual conduct. This is to be seen in the altruism prevalent in every civilised country, and in its incidence it ordains the observance of Good Friday with due solemnity.