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SCOTTISH SABBATH.
Growth of Seenlansm,
. feunday, trading .is a reeent hat growing
.cxcresctnce by the latest coirimunal-hfe,'as'
- evidenced by .the latest '>stQtiBtics, writes
the. Glasgow correspondent of the' "Dailj--
Telogruph." Perhaps. this 113 not so: notice-
able .111 the towns . and country- as in'the'
. cities, .where tlic tendency; especially' since 1
; the rivar, lias developed rapidly . . C(lasgpw,,
winch is -fhe iargestiand. most .pospiopoli..
tail. of tl(C)£;Cottish citiositprovides a typi-i
cal-. it ratlier - extreme" example ' of these
fresh, inroads of-colpjnercc..uppn the-.tradi-
/tionally . sacrosanct" sabbath. i-Tn- 1910
,4108 tradera.' of all varitties, . ot ;-wjneh
inriro .-than ilialf were-' dairymen, ) confec
tioners/ and -"fruitcfrifs, "conduct'ed places
of ; husiness .in thecitv. on Sunday. Last,
yeal-, ,;bjv a - steudv - process of '-.increase
.not1- only in number, > but -111 -kind,, thik
seventh; day-trading coinmumty hud- been
swollen" to over.' 5000. T he; dairies, fruit-
shops and the eating; houses contributed'
a-'few.- hundreds to.-, the itotnl; hut the most
remarkable fillip- r.waB i given , by . tho iriss
.in tlici nuiqbcr of .jiep-s .agents., and' news
rooms,, and.ithe aggregate -figures1, of small
shops dealing un - bread, .-provisions,- hard
ware, : draperies, ' greengroceries : and : fish; '
,Ori, , the. average,. those .small , businesses -
- catering -, for,,- Sunday trade --havo doubled-
their/ totals of -a/decude agp. -. Fresh -re-
cruitS'criutinue to cnter the field as'cnter-
pnsc raud -.the-i demand- dictate.' During
the, last;. five . years,''" for instance, .thirty-'
eigjit .bai-bers .have fouud. it. profitable. to
-reniam open-, on 'Sundpy,:- while c several
ipictprc. framers,: cabinet makers, jewellers,
. &c., have elected ' to - join the ' increasing
.minority. For-somc ofithis latter- Sunday
enteiprise ; the Jewish and - other ; foreign
'.eQimntiiutics arc ; responsible, but no- such
defence -can be adduced" for- tlie ' regulai--
opening, of .over.: a - scote . of cycle shops,,
-.which .qster for . tlie back-to-thu country '
.movement, which-- animates Glosgow.- on;
suimncr Sundays. -
-.The bald truth'to-hc inferrcd-from. these-
figures -.us. taat the sfni'il .of tlie Scots',
sabbath- is gradually , hecomifig. more secu
lar. .Glasgow is perhaps more, "advanced''
-than -the rest ,of the cQUUtry,.and the sab-
lwtarians there ' have jnorc fuel. added to'
their fires by- -the? army of .Sunday . excur. '-
.SiOnistsaud..go)fcrs..;Butcven-thetown
and cpuntiy.'Uiftricts. are -not without ' ovi-;
deuce, dating- baek .tO H lie war penodj of
inipatience ,dt„ thc.' old -restrictions of : the
jCalvini8t,';sabbath; . - -.The greatest - change
which.haa Haken place in ' Scottish '- life vis
in ..'..thq- .sabbath home -life ;<of - Scotland.
-There. nrofew homes -ip Scotland itosday
.w;hcre the jjicture of mety painted in 'the
ffCdttarV Saturday . Night" ls reprodueed
JP -its ' detail. -( .The > erstwhile ; banishment '
pf...,wqL'Idly literature tu 'thp .-locked-' cup
hoer4 soit -the sabbath -- (lays is -no -Jonger
in general obsyrvauCe; Neariy evevy house-
hold;. in : the .cities,:, nndi'ahout 1 lialf . of the
;rest,' of the" populatioji read tlie. ''SuiidaT
Press." - r Church 15 attendance j - has suf
fered 1
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