IT is with the greatest pleasure that we learnt at the end of January that the Iolaire Disaster Fund Committee at Stornoway had protested against the proposal to hold a Sabbath evening concert at Inverness in aid of that Fund, with the result that the parties responsible for the proposal cancelled the concert. The following is the protest which was sent by telegram to the Town Clerk of Inverness:—”Iolaire Disaster Fund Committee learn with dismay that it is proposed to hold a concert at Inverness on Sabbath evening in aid of the fund. My Committee wholeheartedly disapprove of such action. Apart from its being a flagrant breach of the sanctity of the Lord’s Day, they regard the proposal as dishonouring to the memory of their gallant dead, and an outrage upon the feelings of the bereaved. Kindly make this known.—Honorary Secretary.” We consider that this statement expresses in a most satisfactory way the thoughts and feelings of all right-minded people in Lewis and elsewhere on the subject, and that the Committee deserve the heartiest thanks from all such for the noble way in which they have done their duty.
We trust their action has given a very strong set-back to those who are doing all in their power to break down the Sabbath with all its sacred observances and associations. Such profane persons we regard as the destroyers of their country, and the instruments of wringing judgments from the hand of God upon us. No wonder that so many evils have come upon us within recent years. They are still coming, and it would suit us better as a people to be turning from our God-dishonouring and soul-destroying ways, if haply the Lord might send us a blessing from on high.