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Garrison’s Protest Against Sunday Laws

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 5.

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Garrison’s Protest Against Sunday Laws

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON'S protest against Sunday laws, quoted in our Editorial department, will be read with pleasure and profit by our people. It is a valuable document, and should be preserved. The arguments could never be successfully controverted by his opponents. Nevertheless, his prediction regarding the repeal of all such laws then on the statute-books of the States will never be fulfilled. He based his prediction upon the known worth of his cause, and upon his belief that the majority would choose the truth and the right. The worth of his cause could not be gainsaid, but the human factor was the broken reed. The majority never have been willing to sacrifice self-interest in behalf of principle, and the Word contains no intimation that the last generation would be better in this respect than those that preceded it.