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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 18, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 3.

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Sunday Laws Not Needed

From the Christian Register of Oct. 12, 1911, we quote the following sensible statement:—
What we need is not Sunday laws, but enactments which will give all who work for wages one day in the week free from tasks. The wage for the week should be for a week of six working-days, with some day to be agreed upon for rest. The churches can not do better than to work for such a measure of relief, leaving it to the choice of the worker whether he shall take his rest upon Sunday or upon some other day.
Surely no one can deny that every individual is entitled to one day of rest in seven, but in order to obtain this day it is not necessary that church and state should be united, enforcing upon all the people an ordinance of the church in which only a part of the people believe.