p. 352 | The Sunday Saloon Argument by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1889

FromThe American Sentinel, Vol. 4, No. 44.

The Sunday Saloon Argument

By Editor

THE field secretary of the American Sabbath Union has discovered a new argument for closing saloons on Sunday. He says, as reported in the Christian Nation, “The saloon should be closed on the Sabbath, because in being open it jeopardizes the safety of the people in passing along the public streets going to and from church.” We are perfectly agreed that saloons should be closed on Sunday, but the same arguments that would close them on that day would close them on every other day. They are no more a menace to passers-by on Sunday than on any other day, and people are entitled to no more protection on Sunday than on other days. The idea is absurd, and shows the true animus of the Sunday movement; it is to honor and favor the church and the day; and that is just what civil government has no right to do.