SUNDAY LAXITY
FATHER VAUGHAN'S VIEW
Londoners seem more afrajd of Sundays than of air ■ raids, Father Bernard Vaughan has been telling the Sunday Defence Union. Asked recently why it was that 90 per cent, of the people stay away from Church, he replied that "we are suffering from the swing of the pendulum— from a Sunday too strict to, a Sunday too lax. In the Early Victorian day life, as a rule was monotonous, not say drab. When the Sunday caine round tho classes and the masses worshipped, fed, and rested. They belioved in the Lord Jesus. To-day life is strenuous, nerve-racking, and competitive. .When Sunday comes round people feel that they cannot rest. They arp on the jump like marionettes. Besides, definite religion is fading from sight liko a dissolving view. "We do not want," ho added, "Hie Puritanical Sabbath back again. The old Christian idea of Sunday is a day of .rest from servile work, not from merriment and pastime. , Give Sunday morning to worship and soul culture and the afternoon to recreation and refreshment of the meet the week's arduous strain."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 208, 22 May 1918, Page 8
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184SUNDAY LAXITY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 208, 22 May 1918, Page 8
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