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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 26, 1910

A Commendable Method

By K. C. R.

THE Washington Herald of May 9 contains the report of a commendable method of seeking to secure a better observance of Sunday. It says, in part:—

“After a fight of seventeen years for the proper observance of the Sabbath, the Wholesale Fish Commission of Washington merchants have reached an agreement whereby they pledge themselves not to receive consignments or sell fish on Sunday.”

It is also reported that this agreement was reached through the efforts of several ministers.

While having no sympathy with the idea of Sunday sacredness, we can not help commending the methods used in this particular effort to secure the observance of the day; that is, persuasion and mutual agreement. It is in accord with what we have always recommended to those who believe that Sunday should be observed as the Sabbath. We can assure our Sunday-keeping friends everywhere that such methods as these will never be protested against by Seventh-day Adventists. It is when the Christian principle of persuasion and mutual agreement to bring about a better observance of Sunday, is disregarded, and men resort to unchristian and uncivil means to enforce the observance of the day, that Seventh-day Adventists enter their unalterable protest. K. C. R.