Elders H. L. Hoover and H. M. J. Richards are conducting a series of tent-meetings in Raton, N. M., only two blocks from the jail where Brother E. K. Cassell was recently imprisoned for Sunday labor.
The Roman Catholics and Protestants of Rhinelander, Wis., have joined hands and united in asking the civil authorities to enforce the observance of Sunday.20Here is their appeal: “We turn to you as having power and authority in these matters, asking you to enforce all Sunday legislation impartially, allowing no class to profit by restraints placed on others; and assuring you of our support in so doing.”
A complaint has recently been brought by the clergy of Salem, Mass., against those operating places of amusement at Canobie Lake Park, and as the result three persons have been arrested, among whom is the General Manager Woodman of the Southern New Hampshire Traction Company, who will make a test case of the affair.
The editor of the Nashua Daily Press, under date of July 3, 1905, voices the opinion that it is better to permit diversion on Sunday “where it may be seen and controlled by officials than that multitudes seek hiding places with the result that more of immorality may be practised than now,” and further adds on this question of observing a day, “But every man is his own judge of what is right and wrong as between himself and his Maker.”
A new motto for the Christian Endeavor Association which was suggested by Governor Warfield, of Maryland, in his address of welcome at their recent international convention, which was held in Baltimore, is truly suggestive of their union with the State. Here is the proposed motto: “For Christ and the Church, and Our Country,” instead of “For Christ and the Church,” as heretofore.
The Sunday closing crusade in Camden, N. J., by several clergymen of that city, has been carried to such an extreme that a large proportion of the community demand that Sunday be regarded in the same light as any other day in the week. An ordinance for a liberal Sunday law has been proposed as a compromise.
Brother Thomas Hege, of Winston, N. C., will have some forty-five days more to serve in prison when this issue of the REVIEW is received by its readers. Let all remember this brother in their prayers, and also those who were instrumental in causing his imprisonment.
Judge Porter, of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, recently gave an important decision in a test case regarding Sunday observance, from which the following quotation is taken: “The mere doing of worldly employment on Sunday will not amount to a breach of the peace when the work is done without noise and disorder.” A wise decision indeed.
In view of the wide-spread agitation throughout the various States in the Union for Sunday enforcement by the state, it should be a signal for every lover of liberty in these respective States to awake to action, and enlighten many who are deceived.