The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-23
CHURCHMEN URGE
MORE ATTENTION
TO THE SABBATH
Would Abolish Sunday Baseball,
Theatres and All Business
SAY SECTs MUST UNITE
Speaker Declares America Is Not
Being Won For Christ
Sunday Schools Losing

Winona Lake, Ind, May % Abolit
ion of Sunday baseball, Sunday movies,
Sunday theatres and unnecessary
Sunday business are advocated in the
annual report OF DR.. II, l.. Bowlby,
! General secretary of the Presbyter. an
I Committee on Sabbath Observance
lin his message to General Assembly
DR.. Bowlby says in part
THE Presbyterian commtte on
! Sabbath observance struck out on
it's second year soon TO hit upon paths
that were not laid by builders Of the
republic who dotted early New
England with little white churches
and little red cshool houses paths
of organ zed Sabbath desecration
which led not to church nor to Bible
school on the Lords day, but to the
commercial movie, vaudeville and
theatre, baseball and amusement
parks, the dance hall sporting club,
open business houses, loafing parlors,
constant temptations to multitudes
of youth and adults. to sell their
Sabbath birthright for this red pott.
luge
Vicious Propaganda
"The committe would lay sti23s
on a nationwide propaganda for
wide open Sunday. which was
started at Washington, Nov. %
through the generous help Of the
daily press, and back OF which were
powerful amusement ana sporting
organizations
This propaganda was used as a
smoke screen to hide their real
purpose of a commercial Sunday and
by misrepresentat ons, exaggerations
and a string Of lies pub ished through
the press and In the movie houses,
and intensive advertising, extensive
efforts were made to fool the people
and make good the former threat Of
wiping out every vestige of laws
protecting Sunday from the statute
books of every state in the United
States.
THE committee believes that Go.
to-Church Sundays are good and help.
full but that there would be no urgent
need of them if We bad proper
observance OF the Lords Day II the
people properly observe the Sabbath
they will be found in the House of
God on that day
Twelve million Protestant boys and
girs in the United States who do not
attend Sunday school are the problems
confronting the Presbyterian board
of publication and Sabbath school
work, according to DR.. Harold McA.
Robinson, secretary, in hi annual
report to general assembly.
Says churc les Fail
Chicago, ILL. May q Nothing is
palmer than that North America is
not being won won for Chr st as things
are now and that il cannot be so won
unless the churches combine. D..
Arthur j. Brown, of New York, told
the world alliance congress on re
ducticn Of armament here Saturday
Organizations are need essly multi
piled. Expenses Of maintenance are
heavily increased. Communities
VII 'ch could be adequately served by
one church have a dozen Buildings
are poorly equipped, Time aud money
of members are 50 absorbed by the
struggle for existence that tile is
done to advance the cause OF Chri t.
he said
Dr. Brown is secretary of the
Presbyterian board of foreign missions.
member OF the execut We comm tie
Of the world al lance for promot ng
international friendship through the
churches and has been trustee Of
the church peace union
Divided Churches Must Fail
1T is as clear as MONDAY that
a divided church will never, can
never save the world" he decla ed.
The task of evangelizing the world
is so enormous, it must be conducted
in so many different and wide separ.
ated lands, it requires such vast
resources, and is confronted by such
etupendous obstacles. that there is
no likel hood whatever that il win
be achieved unless the peop of
God combine more harmoniously
and effectively than they a,e combn-
ing now A sundered church, battl.
ing against the I'M TED forces of evil.
is fighting at fearful sadyantage."