Note and Comment by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1905

Note and Comment

By Editor

IN the course of a lengthy defense of the Allegheny City detective who in the employ of the “Sabbath Association” of that place shot and killed a man while beset by a mob, the Rev. J. T. McCrory, a prominent advocate of Sunday legislation, says: “The real point of all the testimony, however, was to the effect that three reputable men were left utterly helpless in the power of the mob in the very heart of a great Christian, law-abiding community,” on one of the most prominent thoroughfares of Allegheny City. It appears to us that the presence of such a mob and the free course given it on one of the main streets of that city throws a considerable shadow of doubt over the alleged Christianity and law-abiding character of that community; and as Allegheny City has long been the seat of the movement to make this country righteous by law, and has long had the full benefit of the strict Pennsylvania Sunday law, it would appear to us very appropriate that the Rev. McCrory and other supporters of associations organized to bring about “sabbath” observance by law, should pause and seriously ponder the question whether such legislation and the influence of the headquarters of the Sunday law movement in this country, has made Allegheny City any better than other cities where no “sabbath” law exists, or where it is never enforced.