All Right To Fish Sunday, Says Pastor

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But Go to Church First, Preacher Qualifies Advice

SALINA, Kan. — Salina has a preacher whom every fisherman in Kansas can praise. He is Rev. Arthur Dillinger, pastor of the First Christian church — and he believes it is all right for a man to go fishing on Sunday if he first goes to church.

"I fail to see where we get the idea that the man or boy who goes fishing on Sunday is going straight to perdition," he says. "It doesn't say it in the Bible, and for my part I think there is not as much harm sitting on the bank of some quiet stream fishing as there is rushing over the road at a furious rate of speed in an automobile and burning up good money for gasoline.

"We have worked up a lot of useless theories about the observance of Sunday and this idea about never going fishing or indulging in any other legitimate enjoyment on Sunday afternoon, after church worship in the morning, is one of them."