SUNDAY LEISURE.
Sir-It is about timie we faced up to the question of Sunday leisure. Your correspondent makes a plea for the Continental type of Sunday and I can see no objection to it. For the great mass of people, Sunday as a weekly commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and the subsequent reverence of that day as a holy day has no meaning; it is a holiday which is placarded with restrictions. I for one would welcome the opening up of Sunday as a day of recreation and amusement and I would hope that many who are now indifferent might thereby be drawn to keep the day quietly, and that they might even find their way back to church to get away from the hum-drum of continual pleasure-seeking. If there is any truth in the Christian Gospel it will hold its own in any kind of society. Compulsory closing of places of amusement on Sunday is in the same category as compulsory church parades in the army, and every returned man will know how much good they did. If there is no truth it will disappear,
The judgment of Gamaliel is applicable. Let all places of amusement be open on Sundays and let the times of these amusements be the same as church time. If the competition of the "world" is too great for the Church, then let her close down as an ineffective and useless instrument. If, on the other hand, the Church believes that the "gates of hell shall not prevail," then let her face competition in that assurance. The Church is a spoilt child, and it is time she had a good spanking and that she should take her place in the world, proclaiming the Gospel with cheerfulness, not sulking because some will not play. She need have no fear that in a busy world there will be some who have ears to hear.-(REV.) KENNETH LIGGETT (Opotiki).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 305, 27 April 1945, Page 5
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325SUNDAY LEISURE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 305, 27 April 1945, Page 5
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