The Sunday Mail Question Again by Frederick Bliss

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1909

The Sunday Mail Question Again

By Frederick Bliss

The Homiletic Review sees great promise in a new impetus given the old movement for “Sunday mail reform.” It says that a letter from a New York City mail-carrier to the secretary of the Reform Bureau, at Washington, was by that organization sent to the Social Service Commission of the Federal

Council of the Churches of Christ; by that body brought to the attention of the New York preachers’ meetings, composed of five leading denominations, to the New York Sabbath Commission and to the National Lord’s Day Alliance; that these bodies severally considered the appeal, and jointly drew up a letter to the Postmaster-General, asking redress not only at the New York post-office, but throughout the country. We wonder if any one of them ever read the Senate Sunday Mail Report, of January, 1829, or the House Report, of March, 1830. And we wonder also if the nation now has a Johnson to formulate another report which will meet present-day exigencies as those reports met the exigencies of that period.

FREDERICK BLISS.