Edinburgh, Jan, 14.
Far more than is generally recognized, though the clergy know it too well, the war has shattered the Scottish Sabbath. Its traditional observance had seriously, declined before 1914, but since then the process of decay has gone on with greatly increased rapidity. There is, and there will long remain a large body of the Scottish people to whom the Sabbath will be as sacred as it was to their fathers. But the men and women in their twenties, generally speaking, are already outside its influence, and the children now at school will, in their adolescence, find themselves in a social atmosphere in which even the the surviving restraints of Scottish Sabbatarianism will appear irksome.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.