Progress of Sabbath Desecration.
It is regrettable that the love of pleasure and sport which is making such a tremendous appeal to thousands in Scotland is not content with six days in the week but must also have God’s Day. One place after another in Scotland is yielding to the wishes of pleasure-lovers. Still it is encouraging to know that they are being met and heavily defeated in other places. The L. M. S. evidently feeling the financial pinch occasioned by the Western Isles and seaboard opposition has ignominiously left the field for a season at anyrate but they are renewing their activities on the northern branch of their line. A meeting under the chairmanship of Rev. Ewen Macqueen was held recently at Inverness strongly protesting against this policy. We trust these efforts will be owned by the Lord and that the L. M. S. will have to leave this field also ignominiously defeated as they were in the West.
The Cinema Bill.
This Bill passed the House of Commons with a majority of 18. While this is not satisfactory to defenders of the sanctity of the Lord’s Day it is a bitter disappointment to the shock troops of the devil. It is to be hoped it will meet with stronger opposition in Committee. One cannot expect much from the daily press spokesmen as they are so deeply involved in Sabbath desecration themselves but many of them went out of their way to press the claims of the desecrators of the Sabbath. One paper in particular spoke of Sabbath defenders as “cranks” and “kill joys.” We have no desire to emulate these reckless wielders of the pen. They proclaim too plainly under whose banner they are but it is in no captious spirit we throw back in their faces their threadbare epithets that spring to the point of their pens when they write on such a subject. We charge them with being the real “cranks” and “kill-joys” of this nation. Their absence would make for real sanity and true enjoyment. They are like a biting north wind striking happy campers in July and chilling them to the marrow. Personally we have never met any who so deserve being termed cranks as those who are helping the devil.