Sunday-Law Agitation in Wisconsin

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 21, 1909

Sunday-Law Agitation in Wisconsin

THE eighteenth annual convention of the Wisconsin Sunday Rest Day Association was held in Portage, Wednesday, November 18. Several papers were read pertaining to the violation of the Sunday law by Sunday ball-games, the open saloon, etc. Resolutions were adopted to urge pastors to instruct the public to bring about a sentiment to force Sunday observance, and to urge the legislature to pass a law requiring employers to give employees one day in each week for rest. In one of the speeches, this statement was made: “The sabbath-keeping nations from time immemorial have been the strong, progressive people of the day. We have the law, the government, to a large extent all, on our side against Sunday work or Sunday sport.” At the closing meeting Father M. J. Ward, of the Catholic Church of Beloit, spoke on the subject of “Closing Saloons on Sunday.” Among other things, he said: “It would seem that in this age no one could need any argument to prove the need of Sunday rest and worship, nor should any one need to be urged to love it. We greatly need good laws, and then to see that these laws are enforced.”