Christianity and Basket Socials
By Editor
THE following we clip from a secular paper published in an interior town:— "The basket social given at the Christian church last evening was very well attended, and was a very pleasant and enjoyable affair. The mating brought about by the sale of the baskets was voted a most happy thought, and created no end of fun and laughter. After the supper, a season of social entertainment was had, and at a late hour the meeting broke up, all present having had a jolly good time." This was in a "Christian" church. If it were indeed a Christian church we would not greatly blame those who see no need of their becoming Christians. People can do such things as that without the trouble of making a profession of Christianity. In the days of Noah, people were doing the very same things; but they were not the ones who went into the ark. In the days that were before the flood, "they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage," no doubt having "a jolly good time," and "no end of fun and laughter," until the day that Noah entered into the ark. So absorbed were they in their fun that they "knew not until the flood came, and took them all away." And "so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." THE Christian Union makes merry over the regulations of the West Boston Bridge Corporation, one section of which stands thus: "And the said proprietors shall meet annually on the first Tuesday of June, providing the same does not fall on Sunday." Well, that does sound funny, but the lawyers who drew it up doubtless knew what they were about. They had evidently read the "arguments" for Sunday-keeping, in which we are gravely informed that the first day of the week is "the eighth day," and they very naturally concluded that it must be easier for the first and the third days to be identical than for the first and the eighth, especially since there are but seven. Since the Sunday advocates have shown us how variable the days of the week are,—the first day being both the seventh and the "eighth,"—people can't be too careful in specifying, if they want them kept separate.