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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 27, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 11

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SUNDAY IN BUFFALO.

By H. P. BURDICK

BUFFALO, N. Y., August 5th, 1867.
I send you the resolutions of a Sabbath (or, rather, a Sunday) meeting, held in St. James Hall, last evening. Rev. Dr. Schaff, of New York city, gave us a talk in German and in English. Rev. Mr. Calkins read the State Law for keeping Sunday, but omitted to read the law of God. Do you think he forgot it? The following resolutions were adopted, without any remarks:
That citizenship in a free State involves responsibilities commensurate with its privileges.
That in a Republic the laws which are a charter of the citizens’ rights are also the standard of his duties.
That the safety of a free government depends upon two indispensable conditions—the careful conservation of liberty, and the effectual enforcement of law.
That as citizens of this commonwealth, whether of foreign or native birth, we have a common interest in its liberties and laws, and taking on ourselves the joint task of protecting the one and enforcing the other, will do what is in our power to transmit to our posterity a government in which freedom shall be the servant of law, and law the bulwark of freedom.
That underneath all the institutions, usages, and virtues that adorn our free State, lies the Christian Sabbath, which we recognize as the source of all competent culture; the safeguard of all true liberty; the pilot of the future, as it has been the pioneer of the past.
That, like liberty herself, the Sabbath should be made secure to every citizen, and as no employment, indulgence or custom may be tolerated in a Republic, which infringes upon the common birth-right of freedom, so none should be allowed which obstructs the universal observance of that day of holy quietness and rest.
Some claim that the primary object of this move is to shut up the many beer saloons in the city on Sunday. I think it would improve the city very much, if these saloons were shut up every day. If these agitators are not more careful, they will dig through the thin covering of the man-wrought institution, and let the people see the true light.—H. P. BURDICK,—in Sabbath Recorder.