"GOOD AND PLEASANT UNITY."
The S. F. Christian Advocate comments approvingly on a Catholic Bishop's letter on Sunday desecration. Behold how pleasant it is for a Protestant to adopt or indorse the following:— "I must again call your attention to a Diocesan regulation, made and published by us in a Pastoral letter read in all the churches of the Diocese, ordaining: That no Catholic Society could have a picnic, excursion, fair, etc., without the express permission of their Pastor and Bishop, which in no case would be given for a Sunday or Holy day of obligation. 'Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day,' is God's own command, and the Christian church in transferring its observance to the Sunday, the Lord's day, enforces the obligation of keeping the Sunday holy, and determines for us in what the Christian observance of the day consists. We must not only rest from all unnecessary, servile work, but we must hear Mass, and spend the day, or at least a good part of it, in the service of God and religious duties."