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Show The clergy and religious press very often of-ten make the statement that the tendency of the times is to turn Sunday into a day of labor. This is not true. It is certain that people begin to look upon it as a day of recreation rather than one of worship. wor-ship. This was inevitable and in step with the liberalism of the day. Mild recreation re-creation is certainly rest, and, though a certain amount of labor is necessary to move large crowds in search of recreation, recrea-tion, mere common labor for the sake of wealth is less common than in the good old times. The pulpit and religious press should stick to facts when they go in for denunciation. The people can Bee a misstatement mis-statement very quickly, and they are not likely to implicitly believe those who try to deceive them. |