Tried for Picking Strawberries on Sunday

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 5, 1909

Tried for Picking Strawberries on Sunday

WE understand that the trial of six Seventh-day Adventists, four sisters and two brethren, at Greenville, S. C., for picking strawberries on Sunday, was held Tuesday, August 3. The Greenville Daily News, of Greenville, S. C., dated July 23, gives nearly a column report of the case. It says, in part, as follows: —

Probably the biggest case that was ever argued before a court over a fine of one dollar, will be brought up before Magistrate Stradley on the third of August. This case is one against Sullivan Moreland, Barton Wareham, and Larrie Donwell, who are members of that sect known as the “Seventh-day Adventists.” They are charged with Sabbath-breaking in the form of picking berries on Sunday afternoon for the market next day. . . .

The statutes of South Carolina make it an offense punishable with a fine of one dollar, for one to do any work, except work of charity or necessity, upon the Lord’s day, commonly known as the sabbath. . . .

The case will be held in the courthouse; for it is thought that the magistrate’s court will be too small to accommodate the crowd which will come to hear the case. Magistrate Inman will also probably sit on the case with Magistrate Stradley.