A Dominion Sunday Law by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 21, 1904

A Dominion Sunday Law

By Editor

PRESS dispatches from Ottawa, Canada, report that a Lord's day act has been passed by the Dominion Parliament, thus bringing all Canada under a general Sunday law, backed up by the highest civil authority. This Dominion law contains no exemption for observers of the seventh-day Sabbath.

If this report be true, which we have no reason to doubt, a much more serious situation has been reached than has existed in that country heretofore. There have been provincial Sunday laws, but up to this time no Sunday legislation by the Dominion Parliament. Recently the Privy Council of England gave a decision setting aside the provincial Sunday laws of Canada on the ground that the regulation of Sunday observance was a matter outside the authority of the provincial legislatures and belonging to the Dominion government only. The Canadian “Lord's Day Alliance,” after years of work, have now secured a Dominion law in the matter, and under it the way is clear for the rigid enforcement of Sunday observance on all classes. This certainly means persecution for observers of the Bible Sabbath.

We have not seen the text of this new law, so can not state its provisions at this time; but these will be set before our readers at the earliest opportunity.