SUNDAY AND RECREATION

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 16

SUNDAY AND RECREATION

A writer in the Brisbane "Church Chronicle" (Anglican), discussing the question «f "Sunday and Recreation,'* states: —"An increasing majority of people are to-day spending their Sunaays in an irreligious way, conhiung themselves to purely physical recreation if indeed, they take so much as that, and ignoring the invitation or the religious organisations that they should 'take thought for their souls. So xar "as the Church is concerned, the findings of the Commission on the Religious Habits of the People some years a"O revealed the apparent fact that churchgoers formed a very small minority of the population. We have no reason to think that our case is exceptional, and what is true of us is probably also true of tho other religious bodies in Queensland. And even ot those inside our churches there are probably only a very few who would object bn principle to Sunday excursions and Sunday games. Certainly a number of our churchpeople would be quite ready to accept an invitation to an all-day Sunday picnic, it it -were sufficiently attractive, and probably the majority of our practising churchmen would feel no twinges of conscience at a week-end spent down the bay away, from all possibilities of religious worship."