Protests Against Sunday Legislation

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 6, 1913

Protests Against Sunday Legislation

Do not fail to read the splendid protests of the California brethren to the legislature of their State against the threatened invasion of the rights of conscience in that part of the United States. It would seem that such a broadside ought to be convincing even to the stanchest advocates of religious legislation. Preserve these protests; they will be helpful. It is a fact that is not without its significance that in the District of Columbia and the State of California, wherein are located our two principal publishing houses, there are no Sunday laws upon the statute-books. This is in the providence of God. But there is significance also in the fact that upon these two points the enemy of a free conscience and of God's great memorial is now making his fiercest attacks. We must not, therefore, grow careless or indifferent in the work of advocating the principles of soul freedom and protesting against the opposite wherever it may manifest itself. Let the protest against Sunday legislation continue to roll in to Congress, that this Congress may go out without having enacted a Sunday law. Church elders who have not attended to this matter should do so at once. In the meantime let our people seek God earnestly that he will still hold in check the influence of those who would turn the nation backward toward religious oppression, and that he will still hinder the carrying out of their program.