SABBATH SECULARIZATION.
lis there a danger of the .Sabbath Day, so far as New Zealand is concerned, being secularized or industrialised? Some representatives of the cloth appear to think that there is. Evidence is painfully apparent that the Church is not attracting the masses of the people on the Sabbath Day. Prima facie, this is evidence of .secularization. It does mot follow, however, that because people do not regularly attend a religious sanctuary, they are entirely secular. Nor does it argue a danger of reversion to a,n industrial Sabbath. "What it does prove, more than anything elsie, is that the Church does not appeal, as it should do, to the intellectual .side of human nature. If the gentlemen of the cloth could fully realise -this fact, they would set themselves the task of applying the remedy. It would be a national calamity if the Continental Sabbath were reverted to in this country. The danger, however, of isii'dh a calamity, is more imaginary than real.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10278, 5 July 1911, Page 4
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164SABBATH SECULARIZATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10278, 5 July 1911, Page 4
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