THE ‘DAILY TIMES’ AND THE OPENING OF THE ATHENÆUM.

Evening Star, Issue 3421, 7 February 1874, Page 2

THE ‘DAILY TIMES’ AND THE OPENING OF THE ATHENÆUM.

To the Editor. Sir, —How did Satan try to tempt Eve? By ropicsenting the eating of the fruit in the moat fevorable light—a tree to be desired to make one wise. The tempter took good care to keep out of view the bet that it was forbidden by God. Just so. the Otago Daily Times,’ a day or two ago, seeks to represent the opening of the Athenaeum on the Lord’s Day as a means of “ hallowing the day ; and takes good care to keep out of view the fact that pleasure-seeking, running of railway trains, opening of athenseams, museums, &c., on the Lord’s Day, are all opposed to the word of God. If such means succeeded|with Eve, yet uufalleu, how much more may they be expected to succeed with men fallen and depraved? That part of the meeting in the Athenaeum that attempted to howl down the supporters of the Lord’s Day observance are evidently no friends either of the Bible or the Lord’s 1 hey advocate the idea that each man should do as he likes upon it; that, in fact, they should be free to act as if there was no such divine institution. When the haughty Xiugof Egypt found the divine command come into collision with his own schemes ofjpleasure, be exclaimed, “ Who is the Lord that I should obfey his voice ?” We hear this question re-echoed in the present day. In that significant division that took place the other night, the ministers of religion and friends of the Bible ou the one side, and those who would abolish the Christian babbath on the other, we hear renewed by the rceckless majority, the cry of Pharaoh, “ Who is the Lord that we should obey his voice ?” Lovers of the Bible stand up for the Lord’s Day ! Beta. Dunedin, February 7.