Show CANADAS SUNDAY LAW Canada has just passed a Sunday ob observance observance observance servance law which will afford a most interesting study in legislation and its effect upon the habits of ot a people Ac According According According cording to press reports the measure is the most stringent of its kind ever drafted and its terms justify the th description de description description Except In clearly necessary employments and emergencies em no work of any kind may be done for money in inthe inthe inthe the Dominion on Sunday Sunda Pleasure excursions the opening of resorts where admission is charged games of any kind involving admission admission sion fees even the transportation of passengers except in specified cases case are all barred No newspaper may be published on Sunday and no foreign newspaper imported on that day Jews Adventists and others oth rs whose faith pre pro prescribes prescribes proscribes scribes another day of r ret rest st are per permitted permitted permitted to do business on Sunday and domestic work delivery of milk and andice andIce andIce ice the operation of International and electric lines are ex cx exempt exempt empt Work Vork on the preparation of I Monday newspapers is allowed after 8 p m on Sunday and bakers may set sponge for bread after 4 p m While Canada has always observed the Sabbath more strictly than its American neighbors the new law calls caUs for a degree of restriction which will either prove the value of such a law lawor or discredit it There can be no ques question question question tion as to the wisdom of ot the old Mo Mosaic sale law which prescribed a day of ot rest for man and beast Waiving any argument as to the religious beliefs in involved involved involved the efficiency of a man is great greater er his worth to the community much more when he takes one one day in seven for rest Besides every man owes it to himself and his family to take time for forthe forthe forthe the consideration of ot the problems of ot life outside his business affairs The spiritual side of man is too lightly re regarded regarded regarded as it is and the absorption of all ones one energies in the pursuit of at mon money m money n ney ey inevitably results in spiritual atrophy I Whether any people can be governed by sumptuary legislation of such a rig rigId rIgid rigId Id pattern as the Canadian law may be be open to question but there is no room for debate on or the general proposition that Individuals and nations are better for the recreation and rest the leisure for contemplation of life and the en enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment of ot its better side which come with observance of ot the Sabbath |