AUCKLAND PRESBYTERY.
THE SUBJECT OF SUNDAY
OBSERVANCE.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, January 7
The Auckland1 Presbytery to-night returned to the subject of Sunday observance, and some wholesale' condemnations of common practices were. made. The committee set up to consider the matter submitted a report in which it was claimed that the principles of the Church were flagrantly violated by the ■occurrence on Sundays of fishing and pleasure excursions, ctyclc runs, and by Sunday travelling by boat, train, tram, or 'bus It was contended, tihat scores of men were being lost to Christianity .by the utter neglect of Sunday worsnip on account of the first-named pastime; that the use of all boats in the ferry service on Sunday ought to bediscontinued by Christians; and that they should not travel by the trains on Sunday. The committee also expressed a. desire to see an end. put to unnecessary work in the mines, factories, and mills on Sunday, and had a Word to say about Sunday -gardening and domestic •vork. on the same day.
The suggestions of the committee •wsre, after discussion, adopted, requestwig the ©o-wpe'raition of other churchies in the matter. It was decided to issue a circular to the office-bearers, etc.. providing for the preaching of special sermons on the subject.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 9 January 1908, Page 2
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210AUCKLAND PRESBYTERY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 9 January 1908, Page 2
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