Sabbath Desecration.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 30 April 1913, Page 2

Sabbath Desecration.

TO THE EDITOK,

(Continued from last week)

Speaking at the usual monthly meeting of the " Auckland Ministers' Association," held on Monday, the president (Rev J, A. Luxford) refered to Sabbath desecration, and said " he hoped the Churches would unitedly sound, the alarm, for Auckland's Sun-day-pleasure-seekingwas one of its besetting sins, and if not resisted, would have far-reaching and disastrous effects .. . A few years since, people used to say: —Give us the . statutory half holiday for pleasure, and then you will find us in the Churches on Sundays."—The people now had their statutory half holiday for pleasure, but they are still dissatisfied', and were invading the sanctity of the Sabbath. No sane man would advocate the abolition of Sunday as a day of rest, yet neither the labor party nor any other seemed to realize, that when once the sanctity of the day was gone, it ceased to be a day of rest. This Sunday pleasure-seeking is is doing moral harm to the recipents of pleasure ; and both physical and moral harm to the hundreds who are called upon to cater for the Sabbath-breakers. —Ex from Auckland Weekly News, April 9, 1908. '' They that forsake the law praise the "wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them. " He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination," —Proverbs 28 : 4, 9. G. J.