MR W. T. STEAD ON SUNDAY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3043, 16 January 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

MR W. T. STEAD ON SUNDAY.

Mr W. T. Stead, oo'i'luntinw a wcllattonded "popular" service at a We-f----leyan Chapel in Islington, in tho course of an address said be bad sometimes considered whether—looking at the thing from a practical, sensible point of view— Sunday isras not the wickedest day in all the week. He thought there was very little doubt that it was the most waited day in the whole week ; and, considering that Sunday made up one-soventh part of tfieir lives, he thought that tho Christian Church, in its wident sense, had not a moro necessary bit of work lying near its hands than an attempt to reclaim the wasted Sunday. He had no syraathy with people who wanted to make Sundays just like any other days. Ho regarded them as enemies of the human race. He did not know that they could strike a more deadly blow against all that made for the betterment of the world, tor the raising of men and woman to the highest attainable level, than they could by destroying Sunday. Sunday was, in fact, alnvst the only day on which many people had a chance of living- at all. All the other days of tho week meant for them to scruh and rub and work and toil and moil, and sroinu to bed and getting up again—and that wis abont the end of it. Ho was nst speaking 1 against work. It was good to havo work anri to put one's whole soul into it. He believed that; if any of his congregation—especially tho young people—resolutely determined that thoy would. no> at any oost work on Sunday—not oven if they lost, their situations—they would find at tho end of lifo that they had gained a great deal more than they had lost. He was sure that his hearers would find that the loss of time they took from their work would be more than made np by tho increased vigour, strength, and brightness of mind which would accrue to them.