As far as harvest weather was concerned in August and September, conditions could not be more favourable than they were. In the
most Kind Providence of God the harvest was good and gathered in earlier than for years in Scotland at any rate. And so once again all classes have reason to seek grace to praise and thank the Lord for His great mercy and goodness, although our sins as a people demonstrate clearly our utter unworthiness of the least of all His mercies. Although weather was so continuously favourable for harvest activities, yet even in the North of Scotland this work was carried over from the week days to the Lord’s Day. No excuse could be found for this evil work, but a complete, pagan disregard for God’s holy Commandment: “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy . . .” The writer of the column, “By The Way,” in The English Churchman, writes on October 2nd, that he was saddened to see harvesting going on on Sabbath in England, and observes: “This disregard of the day of worship and rest will inevitably produce a harvest of retribution. ‘For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.'” With these views we most sincerely agree.