The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
REPEAL LAW SAYS PASTOR, THEN PLAY
 SUNDAY BASEBALL
REV. MIR. GALLAUDET SEES NO MORE HARM IN CAME THAN IN SUNDAY GOLF OR
 MOTORING.
Says Sabbath Was Made For Man Not Man For Sabbath, But Doesn't ; Favor Sunday News =
 papers, ;


 Rev. Herbert D. Ga1Ia1det, pastor of the First Congregational church is not opposed to baseball on Sunday but if the statute forbids the game he believes the law should be enforced. In his sermon yesterday morning on The Use and Abuses of Sunday Rev MT. GaIIaudet said some drastic things about people who stay away from church in the summer time and the Sunday newspapers. Incidentally he spoke Of Sunday baseball saying, that if the people did not want the law against Sunday baseball they ought to have it repealed. In the meantime he said there was plenty of time for toI2 erance and fairness and to look at, the ma tier from the other fellows point
 of view.
 To Farmer rep6rter this morning Rev. Mir Gallaudet said there are a number of Bridgeport clergymen who speak for them.
 In the portion of his sermon syester- day which dealt with Sunday baseball and the Sunday newspapers Rev. MT. Gallaudet said in part yesterday:
 ~ 'It does not seem to me that in the present =confessedIy complicated con ditions of modern life, minister has any right to condemn the man who wants his baseball game Sunday iaf- ternoon unless at the same time and in the same breath he condemns the man who wants his automobile or his golf Sunday afternoon ,,
 I'm inclined to think that co1nIner- ctal1y,- baseball Sunday afternoon is better than no baseball at all. I be- Heve it would be better still if the city would recognize the need for 1egit1- mate Sunday afternoons and arrange ereditable amateur contests; as well as contests where the most anateurish amateurs, down to the small boy, get their chance. I hope the day will come when that is done. For, unless the community is willing to do that, to my mind it Is simply wicked to hedge about the observance of the Sabbath with regulations. that are merely regative:-w1atch is Just what the Pharisees did whom Christ. so se-| Yerely condemned
 ''The- Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, so that the bath. This is the day that. the Lord hath made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. T
 t.Let US remember that Sunday. was not made for the church, neither for the people who want to turn it into an unrestrained: holiday, nor for the people who want to make it a catch all for the excesses~ and -1njus tifiab1e exhaust4ons of the week Let us re member that it was made for man and for all of him, body, mind, soul, heart.
 "Let us remember that in accordance with Chdst's spirit and intention it Is a day not of negatives and prohibf- ttons but of a positive triumphant life transforming. death-conquering exper- fence; not a day of gloom therefore, but of abiding and a1bounding joy; not a day of petty rules and close aIlegi- ance to the letter, but of high princi- ples, of living loyalty to the mind and soul of Christ himself And let us govern our use of the day in accord ance with those principles.
 |'The right use of Sunday, hav41g in view the whole of a mans nature and the entire sweep of his normal needs of renewal, includes, of course, relaxation and renewal, for the mind.
 Tt is a good deal to be doubted, 1 Y'm afraid. whether the Sunday papers offer anything very substantial or es- sentia1 toward that relaxation and re- newa1 of the mind, that re-establish- ment of the right mental attitude to- ward life, that refilling of the mental l treasury with ideals and inspirations which can be drawn on through the week, for which a successful use of ought in part to stand.