Who Are Working for Sunday Laws by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

Who Are Working for Sunday Laws

By W. A. C.

The following, under the heading “Sabbath Defense,” taken from advance sheets of the next number of the Twentieth Century Quarterly, official organ of the International Reform Bureau, of Washington, D. C., Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts editor, shows clearly enough who are behind the movement to secure State and national Sunday laws in this country:—

“The Sabbath is now more attacked and less defended than ever before, but there is a plan on foot to reorganize and re-enforce the American Sabbath Union, which was organized twenty years ago by the national conferences of fourteen denominations. The most encouraging recent victory is the Idaho Sunday law, drawn and carried to victory by the Reform Bureau’s Pacific Coast secretary, Dr. G. L. Tufts, who is now leading the united forces of California, in hopeful efforts to secure a similar law. He should be heartily supported in this and other great plans for the moral betterment of the Coast.”

In both the Sunday Rest Congress, held in Pittsburg, December 1-3, and the Church Federation Council, held in Philadelphia, December 2-8, which the writer attended, the hope was expressed that a Sunday law would soon be secured both in California and from the national government. W. A. C.