The evening world., 1905-09-27
POTTER URGES
REST FOR ALL
ON SUNDAYS
Bishop Laments FallingAway
from Strict Sabbath
Observance.
NEW LAWS NEEDED.
Blames Increase in Foreign
Born Population for Neg
b. lect of Lords Day.

bishop Henry C. Potter made his tri-
ennial charge to the clergy at the an
nual Diocesan Convention to-day held in
tho crypt of the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine. The Bishop took for his
subject the Observance OF Sunday. The
lack of this and the need OF more UNI
versal rest on hat dav was gone into.
He lamented the fact that while a GER
tain portion of The people We're able to
eSjov q day OF rest the tendency was
to overwork others. particularly those
Engaged in work necessary for the bere-
At OF others. and said this scarcely
could be excused on the rlea of the
greatest benefit to the greatest number.
He spoke of the necessity of legisla-
tio- that would guarantee TO the work
ing-nan some hours of rest, and of the
difficulty in obtaining 1t. He c~ontrasted
conditions in New York to-day with
those Of a generation ago., saying:
Blames the Foreigners.
"Once, and that not so long ago, we
were a tolerably homogeneous people.
n we. who believed strongly as to
the duty and necessity Of safeguarding
Sunday. could say to the Foreigners
I nave said so myself in a sermon pup
lished some thirty years ago-'It You
don't like our Sunday traditions, you
can stay away where they will not
irk you. We mean to maintain them.
as we lave inherited them Well,
we cannot say so any longer.
"a group of statistics lately published
in a responsible newspaper affords.
tust here, food for reflection, the sig
-Lg-l 4. ---ta -I-,. -
grotesque to ignore. There were born,
in the Borough of Manhattan, last
year, in round numbers. 1900 infants.
and OF these not more han one-ffth
were of American parentage. Still
more suggestive is the fact that while
more han 1000 of these were of
Italian ~parentage. 1900 of German and
$500 of Irish, nearly $1,000 We're OF
Hebrew p~arentage-or, in other words,
represented a race and a religion
which do not hold to observing sun
day at al!!!'
AS to Sunday Sports.
OF Sunday baseball and other sports
the Bishop said:
1T will. perhaps. ne urged that, In this
discussion. 1 have said nothing of that
which is one OF it's raves aspects. and
which Is forced upon US by a disposition
just now to utilize Sunday for the profit
or amusement of those who are pro-
motors of coarser pleasures-of baseball
matches and the like.
Undoubtedly, concerning all such en-
terprises. 1t is time that a plain word
should be said. 1t will be well 10 re-
mind ourselves that that word cannot
justly be merely a sweeping condemna-
ton OF 4 movement concerning which
many of rs know very little. and toward
which our circums :anccs, 1t may easily
be. incline us still less. 1t is only neces-
sa-y that one should recognize how few
oven though. thank God, they are more
numerous thar they were-are the OPP
portunities in great, or even small.
cities for an outing of any kind, in the
case OF wage-earners. TO enable US just
to estimate the impulse whlcn welcomes
a Sunday afternoons s~port-and a Eauh-
ermg for the purpose Of witnessing it
Of whatever sort"
A Plea to Hosts.
The pre,ate drew a picture OF the
Grand Central Station OF a Sunday
morning. with its crowd bound for out
of-town houses, whore he said lhe
Sabbath was spent by the rich in
~lounging about. with no thought OF
church. while they played golf on the
linKs or bridge In the library. TO the
hDstesses OF Sunday house parties,
where no thought III church was given,
Bishop Potter said:
my bro nor, I.s sister, who are host
or hostess for such n group. ! entreat
YOU to redeem your home for godller
usages! Let 1t BE- understood. in your
house. that the Lords Day implies q
your guests 10 accompany you thi,ler,
Let no plea of w~eariness, or supercil-
iousness or i~ndlferfnoc excuse ''ose
whom your roof shelters from require
ments which 20 a great way above
their mere tastes and preferences