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Urging a Sunday Law

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 31, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 53.

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Urging a Sunday Law

Certain bills now pending in Congress are enumerated by the Christian Advocate (Methodist), with the statement that “the moral sentiment of the country will force their enactment if they can be brought to vote.” Among these bills the Advocate mentions “the Johnston bill, to give the national capital such protection against Sunday toil and traffic as State legislatures have given to all the States save one.” Why should a New York paper be interested in the passage of a Sunday bill for the District of Columbia?—The answer is plain. It is expected that such legislation, although technically local in its character, will yet have a wide influence, and will be the first step toward a national Sunday law.