Public Opinion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 6

Public Opinion

SUNDAY TENNIS Sir, —May I, a visitor to your city, write concerning the debate between the Seventh Day Adventist and Mr. Aitken. It is easy to understand the delight of a Seventh Day Adventist pastor who says our Sunday is not God's Sabbath, to read of tennis matches on Sunday. His religion was started by an American woman, Mrs. White, and to make their religion interesting, altered one of the laws of our British Constitution, which keeps Sunday as the Holy Day. Being born in Bonnie Scotland, I well remember the solemnity, the dignity, the beauty of our Sabbath Day, and it is rather amazing to consider that a German pastor of the Wanganui S.D.A. Church would convince my forbears that the present seventh day of this calendar was the day blessed by the God of this present world. Now, Mr. Aitken, please put up your sword. You are a good citizen of the British Empire and Sunday is our Sabbath. And please see the humorous side of Pastor Papp letting us see how pleased he is when our people let us down and break the law of the British Constitution and also the sacredness of our Sabbath. I would be pleased to be convinced which day the God of this world rested and blessed. So please, Mr. Aitken, for the honour of The Christ, and of the British Empire, sheath your sword. It is too obvious.—l am. etc., MARGARET OF SCOTLAND.