Walking on the Sabbath,

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 152, 8 October 1872, Page 7

Walking on the Sabbath,

It mist really very difficult, says the Pall Mdl Bid.jd, for the best intentioned Scotchman toplease the Sabbatarians of thecouutrv to tvhici ho belongs, unless during the whole of Sunday he lies on his back in a state of perfect stagnation. They object to riding or dr.ving, and they also strongly protest against wdking ; it is therefore obvious that if'very on) acted in accordance with their views all lotomotion would be impossible on the Sabb;fch, and what would become of the country isliard to tell. This difficulty stares them in tlu face, and they are now, it seems, busy demising some substitute for walking which wil enable people to get about without breaking the Sabbath; probably in the end they wil find themselves compelled to allow crawlingon all fours or rolling, and it is evident froi a discussion which took place at meting of the General Assembly of the Free Chrch last Saturday that some such iiidulgene is in contemplation as a matter of ne-ees-ty. After the report of the committee on bbbath observance had been read, Major Ros, elder of Aberdeen, moved its approval by te Assembly, and in tiie course of his observations remarked :—" In regard to walkjug n the Sabbatii, that was a point which, he fought, they ought to approach w»th greabiroumspection andcare in the Assembly. He wuld say that there must be some substitut devised. He did not defend Sabbath walki,;, out there were many persons with whomt was the fault of the heart; and they must ft something to put in substitution for it be?U3 they actually went and said to those person' You must not do that,' otlierwi.se they light drive a number of individuals] bick iio dirty and squalid houses—indivi- j duals wo, if not walking out, might perhaps oe drilling at home." Dr Tjaias Smith followed in the same I strain, Ed was half inclined to permit walk- '• ing on Sndays for the present, provided that that it v.s conducted with a solemn deport-' v.wnt, To walking on Sunday he confessed : that he Qiid not sec himself in absoiute op-1 position but the gathering in the meadows, j for examp, of people who had no family relationshipo each other, made the scene one —if not ofiot exactly—at least of merriment. He knew, >o, thai in noi a few cases people lay in theibeds ail Sabbath reading comparatively lowxiblications—publications whicii were utterluniifc for Sunday reading, which, indeed, we* unprofitable reading at any j time."

It is indei. a most difficult question to decide what is, be done on Sundays with vast numbers of stive people denied the privilege of using the. limbs, and even when this is settled there>tnains tiie more awkward question of theiruigs. Sabbath breaking, it is to be feared, avails to an awful extent.

Mr 11. D. INlville has been appointed the j Warden of thtforthera Territory. The MoontaSppor-mine, South. Australia, has paid L. 12500 in dividends during the last six. m;>nfc!i3 Five young 9 n have been arrested and I remaded, on a Cu-go of rape upon a servant,! girl, named Matu-et lleiliy, at North Shore, Sydney. The reports h\ Port Darwin are satisfac-! tory. A trial crtiing yielded 6d\vts. of gold from lOozs. of fyxfcz. Nothing, hoivever, j can be done wit% machinery. The ocean race Melbourne between the j steamers and Great Britain caused some excitant. The result was in ! favour of the la%,_the respective times being 54 and 52 da.

The No-Confidence Debate. The Nelson Colonist gives the following figures, shewing the number of members who spoke, the time each consumed in speaking, and generally the duration of the debate on Mr Stafford's resolutions :

The total number of speakers was 53 : on the part of the Government, 29 ; and on thf part of the Opposition, 27. The deration of the debate was 53 hours 22 minutes.

Wednesday, August 21. H. M. H. M. Stafford 1 20 Runnv . 0 35 Fox . 1 5 Parata . 0 12 Keid 1 15 Tribe ... ... . 0 20 M-Gillivr.iy ... 0 15 Thursday, August 22. Reeves 1 5 Reynolds . 0 25 Curtis 0 40 Murray . 0 50 RatWfce 1 1") Stewar.1 " 0 35 Collins 1 50 Swanson .. . 0 15 Katene 0 20 Friday, August 23. M'Lean 1 0 Gillies . 1 40 Creighton 0 40 Oisborne ... [[ . 0 55 Takamanoa ... 0 27 Reader Wood . 0 55 Tairoa ... ,. 0 15 Tuesday* August 27. Macandrew ... 0 30> Folleston . 0 45 Wakefield ... ... 2 45 Richards n, E " . n 30 Car'rington 0 10 Johnston . 0 27 Brvce 0 25 Peacock . 0 13 Bluett 0 45 Wednesday, August 28. Monro ... 0 53 White .. . 1 25 Luckie 0 35 Vogel . 4 45 Thursday and Friday, August 29 and 3a Fitzherhert ... 8 25 Sir J. C. Wilson 1 0 Kelly, T 0 25 Henderson . 0 15 Tuesday, September 3. Shepherd, T. L. 1 55 Jackson • 0 20 Webster 1 5 Hallensteh . 0 20 1 40 Harrison . , . 0 40 Pearce 0 15 O'Uonor . 0 35 Wednesday, September 4. C'Neill 0 55 Kheehan 1 0 Hunter 1 o Thursday, September o. Williamson ... 1 0 Ormond 3 25 Andrew ... ... 0 10 Stafford .'.', .'. . 1 55 Tolmie ... ..0 5