A Political Threat

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 25, 1909

A Political Threat

THAT the time may come when the members of all the churches will combine to enforce the demands which they make upon the political parties is plainly intimated in an editorial in the Christian Advocate (Methodist), from which we quote this paragraph:—

The political world as well as the general public know that only a small minority of the people who wish for the universal prohibition of the selling of liquors to be drunk on the premises have affiliated with the Prohibition party, so called. They have hated to break up their party affiliations, and many of them are conscientiously in favor of the national principles laid down by the party—whether Republican or Democratic—with which they have always voted. But it is easy to foresee a time when all churches, Roman Catholic and Protestant, will be driven to vote against any party that will sell out or give away the power of the state to prevent the sale of liquor on Sunday, to any municipality so demoralized as to wish to legalize the sale of liquor on Sunday, and thus make the fifty-two holy days holidays in the worst sense of the word.

It is evident that the real principle at stake is the sanctity of Sunday rather than the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors. If this were not so, the same combination would be threatened for a refusal to enact laws which would prohibit the sale of liquors on all days of the week.