The Archive · 1924

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE To The Editor of the

"NontH-CHiNa DarLy News?

Sm,—I am sure that many will thank you for article on Sunday observance, occasloned by the very interesting' statement of Mr. Kingman.

That statement took the ground, I think, that the setting-apart of Sunday for the cultivation of his spiritual life, seemed to him necessary for the full development of his powers of service, to which ideal he was, as a Christian, bound, This shows an admirable spirit, phrase goes, or, where it has gone the whole length of repudiation, to man as man, and this is why there is so little peace in men's hearts or in the world.

Thinking men might do a little thinking on the result of seeking to necromancy instead of to the law of God in the kingdom of Judah long ago, as described in Isaiah 8.19.22. [Or again, they might consider these words on the state of affairs in Jeremiah's time.

"Thos saith the Lord, Stand ye, in the ways and see, ask for the old path selves. to endure it now, once and for. all.

And may there emerge, out of the chaos and the bloody conflict, 9 Government capable and honest. in the conduct of its business and may the victorious general modestly retire, like other great personages of old, to his farm, laying aside the worries and cares of government in all its aspects Tam, ete, Lucear.

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