The Sunday Law and Equal Rights
By Editor
The California Christian Advocate says this of the Sunday Law:— "This law is not unjust to the Jew nor the Seventh-day Adventist. Surely they would not be so unreasonable as to demand that no day of rest should be guaranteed to men, because they differ from others concerning the Sabbath." We are sorry to find such remarks in any paper professing to uphold the spirit of Christianity. We have never desired to throw any obstacle in the way of any guarantee of a day of rest to men; nor have we ever thought of calling upon our law-makers to compel them to rest on a day of our choosing. We only ask equal religious rights with others, and think that we ought to have guaranteed to us the God-given privilege to keep His own commandment without molestation or hindrance. If the law of California were so changed as to compel men to keep the seventh day, and left as it now is in every other respect, the editor of the Advocate would cry out as loudly as anybody against the manifest injustice of the law. The law is unjust to the Seventh-day Adventist, and the decision of no earthly court can change its nature in this respect. The enforcement of this law is really an effort to make us, against our conscientious convictions, exalt the civil law above the moral law of God. The advocates of the Sunday law of the State virtually confess that it is not a matter of conscience with them, by making it a mere "police regulation" and withdrawing it from the domain of Scripture. "Why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?" (1 Cor. 10 : 29), especially in a matter where his conscience is too weak to be discerned. In the discussion of this subject, and in meeting the opposition of those who would enforce their religion upon us, and that without any Bible sanction, we feel that it is blessed to have the plain word of the Lord to stand upon. "The foundation of God standeth sure." 2 Tim. 2 : 19.