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SUNDAY LEISURE.

Sir,-Where will this widespread modern indifferentism eventually lead us? The plea for Sunday leisure, as put forward by Returned Soldier, is a perfect example of the shallow and confused trend of modern, irreligious thought,

One need only deal with the monstrous claim made in the last sentence, that of "exercising their Democratic tight." Does R.S. understand that he is claiming equality with God by confusing democracy with the Moral Law -and claiming it for 94 per cent. of the people? If the "overwhelming majority of the people" prefer to reject the Third Commandment, then let them at least be honest about it. If 100 pet cent. of the people elected to stay away from Church, they would never have a democratic right to do so. Democracy does not apply whére one is a Creator and the other a creature. One is a Law-Giver, the other is, or should be, a law-keeper; there can never be any question of equality, and democracy, between God and His dependent creatures. Whether 94 per cent, of the people desire to worship or not is not really a matter for the correspondence column; it is simply a matter between each individual and. God. Sunday evening entertainment is not unknown in this country; I have-enjoyed many such evenings, having first paid my debt to my Creator on the day set aside. I think the greatest objection to any organised Sunday entertainment will come, not from the Churchattenders, but from that crfoss-section of the people who never darken a Church

door, and yet spend their time in criticising the motive of Church-goers, and holding them up to ridicule. This superior cross-section can tell you what is wrong with Christianity, and why it has failed; they are the reai "dog-in-the-manger" class, exceedingly "touchy" about the Sabbath, and most emphatic that it should be saree as observedby others. The section ftinsed to is of course contained in the 94 per cent; it might even fepresent an overwhelming majority

of same.-

A.G.

W.

(Taoroa)_

Sir,-After reading "Returned Soldier’s" letter, I wonder if the 94 per cent, who, accorditg to your corfespondent, do hot atterid Church, would have the courtesy to tell the poor 6 per cent just why. PROUD 6 PER CENTER (Hawera).

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 5

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SUNDAY LEISURE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 5

SUNDAY LEISURE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 5

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