SABBATH OBSERVANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 11

SABBATH OBSERVANCE

FOUR QUESTIONS DISCUSSION AT PRESBYTERY MEETING At a meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery at Marton on Tuesday, a letter was received from the convener of public questions concerning Sabbath observance. It asked several questions. The first was: In what way is the proper observance of the Sabbath interfered with in your district? The general feeling was that in several ways the Sabbath was being ignored, and, on the motion of the Rev. G. S. King, seconded by the Rev. T. Miller, the presbytery protested against all forms of unnecessary Sunday labour. The clerk was asked to furnish details with regard to the various ways in which the Sabbath was ignored. Are there breaches of the law by the Government railways in your district in providing pleasure excursion on the Lord’s Day? was the second. The unanimous answer was “Yes.” Is it the practice in your district to hold railway picnics and other picnics on the Lord’s Day? was the third. Again the answer was unanimously ‘‘Yes. ’ ’ Has the Summer Timo Bill affected in any way a proper observance of the Christian Sabbath? ran a fourth question. The feeling in the presbytery was distinctly and markedly divided. Some congregations, while not making any pronouncement for or against the question of daylight saving, found that the longer daylight tended to affect prejudiciously the atteandance at evening worship. Others again noticed no difference in their evening attendance.