Remember Sabbath, February 22
In the last issue of the REVIEW quite a full statement was made concerning the “Standard Bill for One Day of Rest in Seven,” prepared by the American Association for Labor Legislation, and being urged throughout the country by the Commission on the Church and Social Service, a department of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. In a review of this proposed legislation, written by a Roman Catholic writer and published in the Catholic Citizen of Feb. 8, 1913, occur the following paragraphs:— “The viewpoint of the bill is that of human conservation primarily, and it loses sight, in part, of the divine command to keep the Sabbath. It seems to us that the Sunday should be made more evident in the bill, and that the one day of rest in seven ought to appear in a secondary rôle—in the light of an exception to the law. “Catholics everywhere ought to assist this legislation more largely from the viewpoint of God’s first great labor law—the Sunday.” It thus seems likely that the coöperation of the Roman Catholic Church will be secured in urging this bill. This would demand a nation-wide campaign to set forth the character of this legislation and what is involved in it. On Sabbath, February 22, the churches throughout this country will be asked to make a contribution for the maintenance of the religious liberty work. As has already been stated, one third of this contribution will be used in the local conference, one third in the union conference, and one third will be sent to Washington for the benefit of the Religious Liberty Department. A liberal contribution is earnestly solicited.