The Sabbath and Sunday Trains
By Editor
In speaking, editorially, of the opposition of Sunday newspapers and foreigners to the movement now in progress to discontinue the running of railway trains, the National Presbyterian in its current issue, closes with the following remarkable words: “It is time, then, not only for all Christians, but for all good citizens to unite in sustaining this movement for the restoration of the Sabbath of the Holy Scriptures.” But what has the Sabbath of the Holy Scriptures to do with Sunday trains? The only weekly Sabbath of the Holy Scriptures is the seventh-day Sabbath. Does the Presbyterian mean to range itself on the side of divine prediction and injunction concerning true Sabbath reform?—No, it means nothing of the kind. The Sabbath of the Bible is not Sunday; neither does it ask support from men as citizens. As Christians, as those whose duty it is to obey God, it is the duty of all to observe, and entreat others to observe, the holy Sabbath. As citizens, they have nothing whatever to do with it.