Sunday Concerts and Sunday-Law Bigotry
“The most rigid Sabbatarian with the most violent prejudices against Sunday concerts for example only needs to view the wonderful spectacle presented in Central Park on Sunday afternoon in mid-summer to feel—and confess if he is honest—that he has not understood what he has been talking about in his ignorance.” Yes, he will, if he is honest; but there is the rub. It is very seldom that Sunday-law bigotry ever becomes honest enough to make such a confession as that, because it is not against any essential evil in those concerts that the complaint is made, but solely as the Kings County Sunday-law Association said, that they are afraid that “the churches will be depopulated.” And to the Sunday-law churchman that fearful alternative turns everything that is done on Sunday into the blackest of crimes.