Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-27
lsneclal correspondence. )

Especial Correspondence
ONDON, Aug. lS.-Clersymen are
depIorlng the London interpfeta-
ton. OF the Injunction 20 rest on
- the sabbath. In fact the English
sabbath is fast becoming continental
,zed" Convention. that all powerfH
factor In social life, Is throwing It's
weight more and moro on the SIDE OK
those who ignore the call OF the
churches.
Sunday finds the wealthy class OF
people motoring In the Bols oe bou
iopne AT Paris. Bachelors ana wouiu pc
hncbeloTs are golfing at the seaSlue.
49, the nooreT people manage during
me week 10 scrape together ehousp
money to make Sunday excursions l"
their country cousins. 49,,
cornnon invitation from a LONDON
or VINO remains at his hotel In towh
',,,or sunday runs: Coming up Tor
ortdge tomorrow? OF course we would
-, nlav in the drawtngroom, put u
-, don,t mind a bed sittingroom-ano
~ cont stakes" After stfehuous
y,ornoon at cards there VIII oe tho
tate Dutch lunch-only they don NA'
| IL that. 10, ,,.htcb M
| one attends. one may see in HYDE ptrs
| ex-consrcgations taking in the All anu
| each others clothes.
y, ts no wonder that the friends OF re-
1 usion ponder with ever-increaslns anNI-
| CIV the riddle How to MI the churcheS
| on Sundays 49,, .1,,,,-,,ar Oh.
| ,,,st nrorninent Roman Catholic priest
| ,n London, was interviewed ne SUI
| .sE,nglish people don't go TO church When
knowingly and willingly they are p'ay
ing nine pins with the ten couililAhu I
tents They do not really believe IN
nersonai God who Demands OF them
itfe worthy OF Christian calling ii
-, we're "A thoroughly believing peo-
lie they would be practical In Their re-
/ iigion-for they are pre-emlnehuF
practical people.
EMPTY CHURCH AND CRADLE
..At present the English race is he
,u.aen The empty church and the empty
cradle and, of course, they act az,
re-act on each other. The low plrt'
rate Is simply appalling, England, one
known among nations AS tho tniN a.,
heautiful homes IL fast becoming IN
land on empty cradles; and, as was IN
casc in the days Of decadent Rome >
nnuv i'm decadent England-the unht ar
, the most fertile. We have become
seIf-centered, material people, loNlh
frivolity. folly and amuseinents peio'
| duties.
iii
from cod II from every pulpit IN u
{ hand there went forth the cry com
8 hack to Christ instead OF Come hac
y 10 the land there might once agai
: ha hone for this dear land IL II win
I nation as with an Individual; II the ~
ton abandons the worship of God,
. lis churches are empty It's souls VIII
o | ernptV. Heaven will be empty ana nc
a viii be fun OF my countrymen.'
LIVING TOO FAST.
j. ..The decay Of attendance at sunds
!, Worship may be accounted for IN Sc
Il oral ways" said the Rev. F b Meys
3 one OF the leading non-confornl
e preachers OF London. The hrst al
n 5.epest cause appears 20 lie in the q
u crossing strain and pressure OF mode
= ne Take the merchants Office htt
n with telephones and filled with the eli
OF typcwriters. consider the vast nus
i her OF kilograms and cablegrams 7
y ouiring instant attention, add 10 the
u the rush OF the trafiic, and II IS "''
= I that men are crowding INTO We
what would have occupied their !
- theirs for months The acceleration
70 the speed OF life entails wasted ne
a vous system, which insists on relax
~ ton This lies at the root OF the
~ cessant love OF week ends ana Sunda
on the river or ocean. The exhausti