SUNDAY AND GAMES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 13

SUNDAY AND GAMES

A BISHOP'S ATTITUDE

"One of the most striking changes which has taken place in our social habits during the last twenty years is to bo seen in the general attitude towards Sunday observance," according to tho Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr. Wilson, writing in the "Diocesan Chronicle.?' "The English Sunday," he says, ."is now practically a thing of tho past and a new generation has grown up who have never known what tho English Sunday Was. ... "Apart altogether from tho religious side of the matter, I think a strictlykept Sunday would be a great boon to our young people. The boredom from' I which so many of them appear to suffer is really due to the fact_that their life lacks variety. All seven days in the week they are spending their leisure in the same way, and this breeds monotony. If on ono day in the week they were, precluded from the usual enjoyments they would appreciate all tho more the remaining six days. ...

"To people who take an entirely secular view of life, Sunday simply offers the opportunity for pleasure and exercise. I often think, as I meet these masses of peoplo on the roads or see them in congested crowds at the seaside, that the very strenuous character of their exercise' must be dangerously excessive, and as the interminable line of holidaymakers streams home, I wonder how'many of them have really enjoyed the day. The cult of the brown, sun-baked body must be very exacting and very exhausting!

"Sunday recreation must not compel other people to work on our behalf. For instance, if I were king of the world, though I should not play myself on that day, I would have tho golfcourses open on Sunday, but the caddiemaster, the steward, and the 'pro.' would all bo off duty and their premises closed. Why should they work seven days, often for only six days' pay?"