- SUNDAY SERVICES FOR GOLFERS ?
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Six,—In connexion with the letters which have recently #ppeared in your columns dealing with a Sunday service for golfers, may I say that such a service has been held at St Nicholas' Church, Wallasey, for the last four and a half years ? It is suppgrXed by about fifty people. (not all of whom are golfers), and the average attendance is about twenty-five. The service is held in the Lady Chapel at a quarter to ten each Sunday morning, and lasts for about twenty-five minutes. The offertories are devoted to the , upkeep of a bed in the Wallasey Cottage Hospital.
There is no need to make excuses for this excellent under- taking. The idea has proved its worth during the last few years, and the service which was its outcome shows no sign of lack of support. I protest most strongly against the attitude of " Omnia Vincit Voluptas." A person who does not attend the eleven o'clock service is not necessarily a hedonist. He is not necessarily irreligious if he does not attend church at all. In any case, why should not a service be held even in a club-house, if golfers wish it ? If they do not wish it, it will not be held. It is a serious matter to deny them. I feel that the Founder of our religion would not have done so.—I am, Sir, &c., , 87 Grove Road, Wallasey, Cheshire. JOHN 0. COLLINSON.
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