Political Religion by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 10, 1882

Political Religion.

By Editor

SINCE the Sunday has come into politics, and temperance is made the pretence of its support, it is amusing to see how religious and temperate some political editors are becoming. It affords them an excellent opportunity to develop these desirable qualities, for otherwise nobody would ever have learned that they possessed them. An actual conversation which took place recently will show how deep hold these things are taking of some of them, and how observing men regard their course.

"How is it," said the first speaker, "that the editor of the ——— is so earnestly in favor of the Sunday Law, which forbids the sale of liquor on that day, seeing that he loves it so well?"

"Oh," replied the other, "it would not inconvenience him at all to be deprived of the privilege of buying whisky on Sunday, for he generally carries enough to last two or three days!"

And this is only a specimen of this political piety which is so extensively prevailing in California. But the churches applaud it. Truly, "the people love to have it so." A religion deeper than that is sometimes inconvenient, and therefore must be unpopular.