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Sunday Rest "in Shifts" in England

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 37.

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Sunday Rest "in Shifts" in England

By S. B. H.

THE following paragraph from the Westminster Gazette (London) of July 24, indicates that the Sunday question is a live issue in England:—
“From two opposite points the question of Sunday arises. Last week the Wesleyan Conference at Cardiff protested against Sunday games; and now the Shop Hours bill is grappling with the matter of Sunday labor. We will leave aside the question of drink and religion for the moment, only suggesting that the village church should be open at least as many hours as the village tavern. The question for a legislature is that of the one day in seven which is required for rest or recreation. And we can not all take it together. The world of to-day would be paralyzed if there were no labor on Sunday, as marked by the clock at Greenwich. But we can take our rest, our recreation, our spiritual refreshment in shifts. And in practise we have begun to act on that system. The journalist’s Sunday falls on Saturday, and Monday is the parson’s Sunday.” S. B. H.