28 MAY 1932, Page 17

[To the Editor of the Sev.er.vron.]

Sia,—I was much interested in the letter of a correspondent headed " Sunday and the Sabbath." The writer quotes Martin Luther's severe strictures on the mixing up of the two. I am come of a Puritan ancestry, and I am bound to confess that Sabbatarianism did come in with the Puritans. I suppose that as it found no favour with Luther, it must derive from the other great Reformation leader, Calvin. And I recall that John Knox was Calvinist, and Scotland clearly headed all the nations of the world in its rigid observance of the Jewish Sabbath on the first day of the week. But—Puritan though I am, and bound to deplore the materialism which is tending to

make of the.. Lord's Day a kind of extension of the Saturday half-holiday—I am utterly opposed to the attempt to resus- citate the Puritan Sabbatarianism. Banish the thought, and