SUNDAY CONCERTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 10

SUNDAY CONCERTS.

Sir, —It is surprising and I may say lamentable," to see the course that tho ministers of religion are taking with regard to keeping "a. nuiet Sunday"" Please consider the facts.' Zihfi. Mon'dav "if Now Zealand is tho Sunday of 'England. , --When the s.s. Turakina ivas discovered to bo on firo, the ship was 557 miles east-south-east of the Chathams, and 1003 miles, {rom Wellington. It was Sunday aboard' tlig ship, but v Monday in New Zealand, vessel had crossed tho Antirwdean meridian.

If in New Zealand .Monday is Sunday, and so it is by the "natural and Biblo way of reckoning "tho days of tho week, whero is tho "evil or wrong of allowing and having sacred. ..concerto \on, <Monday ? If in New Zealand Monday is Sunday, then, the day mistakenly called Sunday must bo Saturday, tho last dav of tho week, or tho Seventh Day Sabbath, and the encredness of that day, according to the Bible, commences at sunset-on'what-is called Saturday evening, l and ends at sundown "on Sunday night. Sunday, .'concerts!are arranged to com-, menco at,,B p.m., tlnt.it is at an hour when the sacredness and s\nctity of tho Sabbath is over. Why then should sacred concerte bo forbidden? No bn&ihas .tho , ; Scriptural right to alter the days of tho week m tho Pacific Ocean. The change can only he Scripturally made where tho first man, Adam, changed his sixth,,dav,;for tho seventh'in the Garden of any Scriptural right to rcst'rrqm a Sunday, for that daj is"oiio"bf tho six working davs given in the fourth precept of the'.Ton Commandments. It"is"ircpr/sistent, l and wicked for ministers of religion 'to -attempt to alter and porvort the-Word. ofvGfodf-i arid "oonfoim to thi3 'World," 'and its' traditions and customs, fh()Ji"tb,ey!j»re "manifestly opposed to direct iblioalr command. >'as well as the examplo ofrthVHoly Prophets and Apostlc3.—l am, stc, jr 'r., V , L .. r DAVID NIELD, Pastor of the Church of God.