European Debate on the Sunday Rest
ACCORDING to a German paper, the question concerning the authority and the meaning of the Sunday rest occupies, at the present day, more or less of public attention in all countries of Europe. A prize essay, brought out by the “Swiss Society for the Observance of Sunday”—“The Sunday Rest from the Sanitary Point of View”—met with not less than 53 responses; among them 15 from Germany, 15 from Great Britain, 8 from France, 5 from Switzerland, 4 from Austria, 2 from the United States, 1 from Belgium, 1 from Holland, and 1 from Port Natal, in South Africa. Clergymen, doctors, and national economists are thus far in accordance with the voices of the people that the hallowing of the Sunday must be recommended from every standpoint.—Independent.