DAY OF HAPPINESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 6

DAY OF HAPPINESS

OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY BISHOP CHERRINGTON’S IDEAL | HAMILTON, Today. (Special to THE SUN) “The observance or non-observance of Sunday will not affect the salvation |of anybody’s morals,” said Bishop | Cherrington during a discussion on I Sunday observance at the Waikato Diocesan Synod last evening. The debate was opened when Bishop Cherrington moved the follo.wing resolution:— “That the due and proper observance of the Lord’s Day is a matter affecting the simplicity and freedom of the Gospel.” Speaking in support of the motion the Bishop said that the observance of the Lord’s Day was not commanded as an obligation, but it was to mark the Lord's Resurrection, and Christians could not keep it in any other way. It was a day to bring happiness into the home, and so far as the Church of England was concerned there was no regulation for . the observance of the Lord’s Day. The Church taught that the Lord’s Day should fee observed as a feast, and on that day the peoples of ttfe Christian church should gather round the Lord’s table for the purpose of receiving Holy Communion as a. social meal. The ideal observance would be reached when the greatest number of people met together for the Lord’s service. After arriving at that ideal of observance, he did not think it was a matter for concern how the rest of the day was spent. The motion was seconded by Mr. D. j Hay (Hamilton), who endorsed the ! opinions expressed by the Bishop. j There was discussion on the motion ' until the Rev, R. L. Connolly, of Te 1 Aroha, moved the folloXving amendment: —“That in the opinion of this 1 synod, the proper observance of the Lord’s Day is a matter affecting the spiritual and national life of the people and calls to all church people to give the matter serious thought.” The amendment, seconded by Mr. A. N. Wills (Cambridge), was discussed for a and the debate was then adjourned.