SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9024, 11 December 1907, Page 2

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

DISCUSSED BY PRESBYTERY.

Per Pross Association.

Auckland, December 11

At Auckland Presbytery iaet evening the Rev. G. Scott moved that the Presbytery express emphatic disapproval of tho conduct ot a number of members of the House, of Representatives in travelling by special train on Sunday on returning from when there was no necessity ; to do *o, a;:d thus advertise their disregard for tj;s day. Somo of the clerical fepresoutativei said they sliould consider whether they themselves wore blameless before they passed su.cii «i resolution, whiie others were of opinion theifi was" too jreieh Sabbath desecration anil it was time h stfong stand was made ngaisnt it. Tlie fay r«pre r seutatives appeared similarly divided, and it, was eventually decided that- tho motion lio on the table, atiri thai the committee report on the whole qWsf.iqn of Sabbath desecration.