There is no disputing the fact that the age is material, mercantile, money-making.

For six eager, rushing days it is absorbed in the pursuit of money or fame or pleasure.

Then God strikes the note of his silence in among the clashing sounds of earth's Babel and calls mankind to make a day unlike the other days.

It is his merciful thoughtfulness for the race which has created this special day for men.

Is it too much to ask that on this one day men think of something else besides politics, stocks, business, amusement?
Is God grudging the man the pleasure of life when here He gives the man six days for labor and then asks for only one day specially set apart for him?
The objection to very many things commonly mentioned by the pulpit as harmful to Sunday is not an objection necessarily based on the harmfulness of the things themselves, but upon the fact that these things are repetitions of the working day, and so are distracting to the observance of the Sunday as a day of rest and worship, undisturbed by the things that have already for six days crowded the thought of men.
Let me illustrate.
"Take for example the case of the Sunday paper, as it pours into Milton every Sunday morning on the special newspaper train.