Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-12-10
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 INDUSTRIAL WEEK Five Days Ought to Be Enough for Making Good
 Living, is Opinion.
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 SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
Commission nf Federal Council of Churi hes of Christ Thinks six-Day Industrial Week Telauts toe Many
 to Misuse Sabbath.

St. Louis, Dec. 9,--A 'sfive-day in- dusttial week" was suggested and hoped fer in the report o1 the com- mission on Sunday observance sub mitted today at the quadrannial meet ing Of tho Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. The report reads:
 In such times as these in which we live would seem as if q five day in- dHstFial week ought to be adequatc to the making of good living, and that two days might be given defin- itely to the making of good life. As our higher life does not consist in the abundance of the things that we pos sess, is i5 not reasonable for us to have two days of the week for rest, recreation, self-culture, social service ard rublic worship? We are told that this general question is receiving no little attention in the business and in- dustrial world
 "The toli and stress of six work ing days tempt thousands of good peo- pie to welcome the seventh as a day of rest and recreation, rather than a time for public worship and other Christian activities. The wonderful progress of science in the realm of physical forces and the rapid increase in the worlds possession of material goods and power are allowed to en- courage folgetfulness of invisible and eternal riches. We need therefore to stop at stated times, in homes and churches, to think of God and immor- taiity and exercise our faith in other and immaterial values-values that will last forever. But if our Sabbath observance does not make us better Christians the other six days, there has been no true Sabbath keeping"
 The commission recommended:
 "Ihat, affirming our protest as to the present conditions of society which demand of 4,50O,000 Of our people to work continuously throughout seven days in every week, we pledge our sup port to all measures looking toward the provision of one day of rest in seven for brain and hand toiers.
 "That, deploring -thelneglect of pub- lie worship on the part of many Chris tians, we urge that all believers of Jesus Christ shall bestir themselves by giving more attention to public wor- ship and spiritual culture.
 'That we ask of every munition plant in the United States to give it's employees one day of rest in seven, preferably Sunday.
 "That we not only endorse a gen eral half holiday of ,,one of the six days of the week foru physical rest, nreefrably Saturday as tending to better observance of Sunday, but for the higher sake of the largest possi- ble culture, we hope the time may come when brain and hand toilers, shall have for their own use both Sat urday and Sunday, one being day of social recreation and the other day of worship"
 Church Unification.
 Important movements of church unification in America have advanced during the last four years and will have a far-reaching effect upon the mission field, according to the con- mission of foreign missions which re- ported at today's session of the quad rennial meeting of the Federal Coun- cil of the Churches of Christ in Am erica. The report is an exhaustive re- view of mission work abroad, laying stress upon the great advance that has been made in cooperation Discussing church union, the commission says:
 "The proposed union of the Metho- dist, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches in Canada will not only deep- ly influence the home mission policy and situation in Canada, but it will deeply affect foreign missions in many fields. The movement toward the uni 1ication of Methodism will completely change the missionary situation in Latin America and Asia and Africa, and is riUIt;y ciirriuO DIOf fOrp div tho thought of the missionary leaders,"
 In conclusion the report reads:
 "The Christian churches working to- gether in the missionary enterprise confront today both the privilege and the duty of unique serivce to human ity which needs above all else that principle of service and of unity and of love, of which the enterprise of foreign missions is the purest express ion."