Sunday Music and Church Attendance

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1889

FromThe American Sentinel, Vol. 4, No. 22.

Sunday Music and Church Attendance

ANOTHER despairing cry that arose from the Kings County, N. Y., Sunday Association was as follows:—

“By the conjoint efforts of the Common Council and Park Commissioners, we are advised that music will be provided in Prospect Park on Sunday afternoons during June, July, and August; perhaps they will be dubbed sacred concerts, to make them more palatable. . . . That if established here, they will be the means of depopulating the churches and Sunday-schools, there can be no doubt.”

Well, well, well! Can it be possible that the churches and Sunday-schools are held together by so frail a tenure, and rest upon so capricious a basis, that they will be depopulated by music Sunday afternoon in the parks?—It must be so; else this great association would not in public convention have confessed it to be so. But what a confession!