JF Ptak Science Books 2241
It was a secret mystery as to what might be hidden in this pamphlet with the striking and unusual cover...I had a hard time imaging what the work was about, and never did really come close. It turns out that the bombers dropping their payload on a skyline of churches from an impossibly low altitude in a Seussian-blue sky were dropping "missed Sundays" on churches.
Carlyle B. Haynes, the author of the work, was warning religious people about a movement at work to change the calendar of the world--in effect, it would "even out" the months, and the quarters of the year, so something more, well, "efficient"(?) And to get there it would entail "kicking out" the last day of the year of 1943--a Sunday, the "blank day". The fear here was that Sundays from then on into infinity or as long as this new calendar was being used would be upset, and that Sundays would no longer be so, the calendar upsetting a calendrical system that "stretched back to Creation".
It seems that the main fear would be that the "true Sunday" would be somewhere else in the calendar, that Sunday would actually be Monday or any other day in the week, and thus an attack on religion, in general, by a "wandering" religious day.
Mr. Haynes wrote a number of pamphlets on religion (including another work similar to the above called World Calendar Versus World Religion), and seems to have had long evangelical roots. But in knowing a little bit about the history of recording and keeping time, and dates, and the calendar, and the history of the seven day week and the long international history of the observance of the seventh day for religious purposes, I am having a hard time understanding exactly what Mr. Haynes was trying to say in this work.
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