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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4605, 24 September 1923, Page 2

' ■ I There arrived to the order of an Eketahuna carnation enthusiast a large box of carnation plants from one of the most noted growers in England. The plants (says the “Express”) arrived in perfect order, though they hai left the nurseries on June 20The method used in packing appeared simplicity itself, though no doubt a , trade “wrinkle” had been The plants did their long trek without being watered on the way. It has been reported that in Hamilton there is a boy of about 13 years of age who is adept at chess playing. One or two Morrinsville chess enthusiasts declare that they have met more than their equal in Cecil Pickering, a Morrinsville boy of only 12 years of age, and it is confidently asserted by several who have played with him that he should prove equal or better than the Hamilton boy. One of the gentlemen concerned is prepared to bear the expense of matching . the Morrinsville boy against any | others .the neighbouring town cares to put forward. . Speaking in the Christchurch Presbytery on a proposal for stricter Sabbath observance, the Rev. J. Paterson contended that it went back to - the old idea of God. It made God jealous Being, who “ took it out ” of people who did not obey His law. - “ Take a practical case,” he continued. “ Through a physical infirmity, I can’t walk to church and back again on Sundays. On a recent Sunday my car broke down (evidently a rigid observer of the Sabbath). So I did the commonsense thing and caught a tram. Was there anything wrong in that ? God is a commonsense God, and he expects us to have common sense. We not say a man Is not obeying Jesus Christ because he does not keep the Sabbath according to our ideas ; thait, has all tp be left to their, own conscience. We have to educate them on the right lines. We can get them to keep the Sabbath if we present it as a privilege, in form of common sense. The Testament shows that we are not under law, and have no right to impose Pharisaical legalism. He did nox think there was the slightest harm in a man going down quietly to the seaside or to the hlUs on .% Sunday alternoon.—Christchurch “■un.”