Need For Strong Convictions About Sunday
\ "A community that has no sense of tlje peculiar nature of one day for worship and rest in the week .is a community that is sowing the seeds of its own destruction," said Rev. A. Salmond, in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Levin, last night. "Let the members of a community have no convictions about the use of Sunday and they begin paving the way for the totalitarian state, the dictators of which do have strong convictions about what must be done on Sunday." Mr. Salmond described the way the rulers of Germany in 1936 made Sunday a day of " military training for youth, and a day for the awakening of mass hysterias. They were able to carry eut~ theirvicious designs because the nation as a whole. had lost its sense, of the sacred, and the church was busy abo.ut only religious matters. "Christians need to have strong convictions about the use of Suriday, arid they need to act on those convictions," said Mr. Salmond. "Strong feelings without action betray the soul into sentimalism." ' . ' ♦
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 April 1948, Page 4
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