Sunday Opening of Public Libraries Debated
The question of opening the public libraries of our large cities on Sunday is eliciting a good deal of discussion. Leading denominational papers argue against it with great fervency; and the Baptist ministers of Boston unitedly enter a formal protest against it. Because certain parties clamor for a laxer observance of Sunday, some can see nothing in it except the waning away of the power and influence of the Sunday institution, seeming not to look into the matter far enough to see that this agitation is just what is calculated to call out the strength of the other side. Sunday-keepers would make no move if they did not see that the institution was in danger.