CORRESPONDENCE

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 192, 7 April 1893, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

[The editor is not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] (To the Editor). Sir, —The question whether Good Friday should be kept ns a sacred day or not is one on which lhe churches seem to differ, for we find that the members of some churches make it a. day of pleasure and sport, whilst other churches hold specially impressive services, and consider the commemoration of the day on which the Saviour died as even a more sacred duty than the observance of Sunday’. I can quite understand that some of our big trading concerns care nothing about the Saviour for Holy Writ tells us how He had to take the whip to some such, but I do think that it was due to the consciences of a mixed community such as ours that the day should have been observed as a holiday at least. Many men were compelled to work last Good Friday much against tlieir inclination, aud y’et or. the Saturday several were given a holiday to go shooting. Was this legal? - I am, Sir, No Conscience. [F,d. We must refer our correspondent to Mr McLeod for the legal question. We were surprised at the Kauri Company’s mills being kept working on Good Friday. The following paragraph clipped from the Weekly News will show the contrast between Auckland city and our mill settlements on Friday last:—“ Good Friday, considered by the older churches as the most solemn day in the yoar was very generally kept on March 31. All offices and places ox business were closed, and solemn services were held in the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, and iir many other places of worship. But for tho running of the trams there was little to distinguish the day outwardly from au ordinary Sunday’.”]