Sabbath Desecration.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 253, 24 November 1903, Page 4

Sabbath Desecration.

Now that the Carnival week is about finished, it is time for people to give up wondering why the other horse won, and why the judges at the Show giavc the first prize in merino ranis to the ugliest and most wrinkled old ruminant they ever saw in their lives, and to think of serious things. For instance, the public might spend to-morrow appropriately and profitably in considering a decision of the Presbyterian General Assembly sitting in Dunedin, which, amongst other things, adopted a report recommendibg that the Church should give prominent attention to Sabbath desecration, special reference being made to the departure of steamers from our ports on Sundays ! The public might think it over, and decide whether or not this is as sensible as the idea that it is wrong to make a tram driver work on Sunday, and yet perfectly propar and righteous to make the cook prepare the Sunday dinner, or the idea that one cannot be reverent on Sundays unless one walks gloomily to church arid frowns at the devilish lure of the sunlight and the green trees, or the idea that Sunday music in the rotunda is an abomination, while florid voluntaries in the church are signs ot'graced " T*e' pii'i- j He might further ask if the Assembly imagines that it is more sinful to despatch a 'boat on Sunday than to refrain from stopping a liner in mid-ocean every seventh day. If the public will spend its spare time in thinking of these things it will no doubt conclude that the Assemhlv has strayed from the time of Cronise}l. and that it is built on the lines of the uid Puritan who smashed up a beer cask because the v<uj>t was working on Sunday.—Trut.h.