p. 224 | CHICAGO SABBATH by W. C. G.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 27, 1868

CHICAGO SABBATH.

By W. C. G.

THE editor of the World's Crisis has been spending some time in the city of Chicago, and as a result of his observations, seems to have become at least partially cured of his no-Sabbath proclivities.

Under the heading given above, he makes the following remarks:

“There are a large number in the city of Chicago who pay no attention to the Sabbath [Sunday], only to engage more heartily in amusements, drinking, and carousing. Besides these, the steam cars on the railroads are running to and fro about the same as on other days; groceries are open, produce displayed, billiard halls are in active operation, and drinking saloons are crowded.”

This is precisely the result of allowing every man to “be fully persuaded in his own mind,” as to whether he will esteem “one day above another,” or “esteem every day alike, as so strenuously advocated in the Crisis by opponents of the Lord's Sabbath. We remember to have heard the same gentleman very distinctly declare that the old law of ten commandments was dead, and he should certainly find no fault with the citizens of Chicago for demonstrating before his eyes the exceeding utility of such freedom as arises from the death of God's law. W. C. G.