An Archbishop's Sunday

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 May 1910, Page 4

An Archbishop's Sunday

~ - —» MR A. C. BENSON'S CONFESOX.

»p at iAi , c . u f iou , s confession of a futi at Archbishop's failure to make own children love Sunday occurs -Vlr A. L. Benson's (.-auscrio in t current issuo of "The Church Fa ily Newspaper." Discns.siii"- t preservation of Sunday observam .Mr Benson lays it down as a fii principle tlwit tho young genorati: .should bo brought up to love Su day. 'My latlier'-' (afterwards Arc bishop ol Cautwbiiry), h 0 sa\ loved hiuulay very much; it w o f to him by far tho happiest day ,1,. the week, and there was about "hi

on b.inday, a certain tranquil ai cheerful a.ir, which mado itself ft '• in all ])o did or said. He tooK ve _ great pjiins, f now see, to jumko lovo tiro day, and it is pathetic me to think that he did not succei in doing so. The truth was th ho laid out every dotn.il of tho d; for us. antHlie result was that i stead 'of being in any sense a ho' day, it seemed to be a <by v of co; pj stniint. and continuous cngag miMits." -Mr Benson urges that i seiiiso of discipline shoukl oversli; s, dow the duy, and that thero shou' bo variety and chango in its ooci pations. Ho deprecates "lon walks and no scampering," and tl banning of week-day books. Ofcht .suggestions which he makes for tl profitable use of Sundny «re, fin that all ordinary work should be r< ditced to a minimum : second, that : is equally a Christian duty to st - apart a. definite p;ivt of tlu> <ky f<; religion (aiming, liowever, at qua ity rather than quantity); an third, that the day should .afford real change to everyone. "I hav no desire-," he says, "to see Sun i day secularised: but the worst seen ' larisin of all is to niakt* it a- puivl } unoccupied day. for that, is tho soi in which the worst weeds of ih wui! flourish."