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Sunday Laws Do Not Honor the Sabbath

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 3, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 1.

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Sunday Laws Do Not Honor the Sabbath

By Editor

A NOTE in a recent issue of the United Presbyterian declares that “Georgia has honored the Sabbath,” and the proof of this assertion is the fact that the supreme court of that State has sustained a law prohibiting the running of freight-trains on Sunday. The Presbyterian is mistaken; the Sabbath is not honored in any such way. An attempt may be made to compel the recognition of Sunday, a rival institution established by human law, but that is far from honoring the Sabbath. Each individual is instructed to “call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable,” but this refers to the seventh day of the week, and there is no divine authority for thinking that compelling others to stop work on Sunday is honoring the Sabbath. We would be glad to have all men honor the Sabbath, but we see no occasion for rejoicing because a human law prohibiting the running of freight-trains on Sunday has been sustained. Comparatively few persons are honoring the true Sabbath of the Lord.