READERS CONSIDER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 4, 4 October 1950, Page 4

READERS CONSIDER

PRESENT BY INVITATION Sir, —In connection with your report of a meeting of parents at Ohope recently, I should like to state that I was present by invitation to explain certain matters in connection with the establishment of a separate school. As a servant of the Auckland Education Board it would have been impossible for me to have taken part in any subsequent proceedings. Yours etc., A. H. FRYER-RAISHER. Whakatane, October 3, 1950.

OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY

Sir, —Your paper always gives us food for thought—sometimes very serious thought.

In Friday’s issue you call for a working bee for Sunday morning, to put boats in order. And you tell of the opening of the Gun Club on another Sunday. And —but you know what previous issues of, the paper have said. For all these activities, why not Saturday? There’s truth in the old lines. “If Sunday goes, the Church goes. If the church goes, the home goes. If the home goes, the nation goes.” You may check up on this. (1) How many who give their Sunday to sport are reliable Church members. (2) How many broken homes are found in Church circles? How many girls and boys who wreck their lives on the threshold went through Sunday School and Bible Class? (3) The other two answers supply this one. Our Seventh Day friends will hasten to point out that we worship on the wrong day. Be that as it may, we do have (and we do need) one day set apart, a little breathing space, when we “Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.” Little as we, as a town, recognise it, that is still one of the Ten Commandments.

“What are the Churches doing about it?” Continually we hear that question. Well, this member raises a protest. Yours etc., PROTESTANT. Whakatane, October 2.