Who own these fruit stands and cigar stores and meat markets, and who patronize them?
Is it not true that church members encourage all these places by purchasing of them on the Lord's Day?
I have been told by one of these fruit dealers with whom I have talked lately that among his best customers on Sunday are some of the most respected members of this church.

It has also been told me that in the summer time the heaviest patronage of the Sunday ice-cream business is from the church members of Milton.

Of what value is it that we place on our ordinance rules forbidding the sale of these things covered by the law?
How far are we responsible by our example for encouraging the breaking of the day on the part of those who would find it unprofitable to keep their business going if we did not purchase of them on this day?
"It is possible there are very many persons here in this house this morning who are ready to exclaim: 'This is intolerable bigotry and puritanical narrowness! This is not the attitude Christ would take on this question.

He was too large-minded.

He was too far advanced in thought to make the day to mean anything of that sort.' "But let us consider what is meant by the Sunday of our modern life as Christ would view it.