THE MODERN SUNDAY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5333, 1 October 1928, Page 2

THE MODERN SUNDAY.

THE DAY OF UNREST. A TOPSY-TURVY AGE. When the Mayer of Christchurch recently supported the protest agajnst the proposed landing at Sockburn Aerodrome on Sunday of the transTasman, fliers, he was joining forces with the leaders of the movement, now spread throughout, the world, for .a; return of the restful, religious Sabbath. A London correspondent, comments! on the subject in a re'etnt despatch :— “Not only is the present age an age of noise—against which, with its peril to nerves- and health, doctors and writers are fulminating—but it. is an age of unrest, a,nd an ineviable Corollary of hustle is noise. Tlieye are places where motor traffic/ 8 rendering, life unbearable. People are benng driven from ‘town’ houses they have long occupied), wherein, years ago, they enjoyed a peaceful existence, to seek, in the country, that of which hey have been'robbed, but villagers are. distracted by the turmoil to which they are now subjected, it will soon be exceedingly difficult to find any place where restful quiet can be, enjoyed. Sunday used to, be a day of peace. I agree that it was a day which was rendered pajinful to many, especially to children and young peo,ple. The rigid observance qf Sabbath rules was to them intolerable. Today we: are at the either extreme. Reverence for Sunday is rapidly disappearing. The, 'Day of Rest I’ It is the Day cjf Unrest. It is the day of the week which hundreds of thousands of people regard am a holiday, when they can go where they will and do what they' like, with little, if any, consideration for the feelings of others. They deligjit particularly i. n tearing along country reads and dashing through villages, creating all the noise and disturbance they can, not caring much where they are going sq long, as they can get there in the quickest possible time. It. is the same in Wales—which, in by-gone days, was as quite as the grave on Sundays —hrs it. i,s iii England!, and it is the same als'o in Scotland, where the old S.ajbbath atmosphere lias gone. Doctors are warning us of .the dangers of husitle, and adjuring uS to rest mere.”