By CHARLOTTE HYAMS "I know a minister who works like a fiend on Sunda y— preaches two radio services in the morning, then conducts a midnight radio service in the evening . . . What makes this arrangement moral for him and immoral for someone else: such as a Jewish merchant?" The Battle of the Blue Law has been a long, aggravating and expensive one to both Jew and Gentile. But few writers have lent such spark to the Holiday Good Cheer HUGH JEWELERS 7635 West Vernor VI 2-1122 fray as Detroit Free Press Re- ligion Editor Hiley H. Ward in his "Space-Age Sunday" (New York: The Macmillan Co.). Quoted above is an exal of his cogent 155-page c against the archai em of state laws tha . only has harmed sma e keepers, car dealers a eal esta men, bi hich has Sat- urday bath observers a an a trary Churc Sty larat : Thou sh Sund Wa points out that seven Sunda osing cases have reached -t Su reme in recent years; eac ime the Court left the matter up to the states. Michigan is one of 12 states which permit exemptions for Saturday observers, but o n1 y seven out of the fifty have no restrictions against Sunday work. Local ordinances, too, reg- ulate against "Lord's Day" vio- lations. What doe he A cc . inap y rch's traditional rega "religious sensitivity" hasn't kept up with the evolution of our society. • Althouo- the boo particu • o Chi i. ., s ight the dis- c c lue Laws by de- ing their. WW1-ship of God t every day of the week, many references Jews and his at of the Sab- aism are of ,special erest to non : Christian readers. He notes, for example, that "The earliest Christians worshiped as Jews. They knew no other way of worship. Jesus himself, brought up in a Jewish home, lived within the framework of the Jewish pattern. The disciples, too, were presumably all Jews. Thus . Temple worship, along with the daily customs of breaking bread (and possibly other practices such as preaching, singing, laying on of hands, reading Scrip- ture) comprised the Christian wor- ship pattern. Many of the features of Sunday church are to this day decidedly Jewish—women keepidg silence in the Temple, standing at least for part of the service, read- Holiday Greetings Happy Passover to Our Relatives and Friends A. R. Herk Industrial Catering EIDELMAN BROS. INC. Melvindole, Mich. DUnkirk 1-9070 Wholesale Floor Coverings 5875 Concord WA 5-4181 Holiday Best Wishes HAZEL'S Standard Service Best Wishes to Our Relatives and Friends For a Happy Passover Atlas Tires and Batteries Road Service 18335 W. 7 Mile at Glastonbury For Service, Coll KE 1-9622 LOUIS M. ELLIMAN BELCREST HOTEL _21.9...SLSZAJL11.9.9-0.1.SLISULL.Q.Z.Si_ Sincere Best Wishes Happy Passover GRATIOT TOOL SUPPLY CO. 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The first blue laws, Ward states, were passed by Constan- tine I, the fourth century Ro- man emperor converted to Christianity. But while the per- secution of the Jews under the Romans has disappeared in modern America, the blue laws continue to act against them. Ward urges the church to side with "the minority against inquisitory fiats" and suggests that a prime purpose of the blue law, to keep the family to- gether on a rest clay, has failed. Rather than tell individuals what they can and cannot do, the church would do well, he claims, to educate youth in a manner similar to the daily Hebrew school. Education at an early age, he suggests, may avoid the situa- tion discovered at one univer- sity: A study revealed the Fourth commandment, that deal- ing with the sabbath, was re- For Al! Your Insurance Needs "It's a good policy not to have a Pad one" 19350 JAMES COUZENS HWY. 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