Holding the Sunday-Law Movement in Check by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 27, 1910

Holding the Sunday-Law Movement in Check

By W. A. C.

FROM present indications, the movement for Sunday legislation is onward in Congress. Friday, January 14, the Senate Committee of the District of Columbia decided to report favorably again upon the Johnston District Sunday bill, and the report was presented in the Senate the following Monday, January 17. It will be recalled that this measure was reported favorably by this same committee May 1, 1908, during the Sixtieth Congress, and passed the Senate May 15 of that year, but died in committee in the House.

The meeting on the fourteenth instant was the first meeting of the Senate District Committee held this present session, and the report respecting the Sunday bill appears to have been among the first things considered in the meeting.

At the closing meeting of the Reformers’ Conclave recently held here in Washington (December 12-17), Mr. W. F. Crafts, who called the conclave, stated that they were holding this question of Sunday legislation, upon which there was some disagreement, “in abeyance.” They wished to get all the reform forces, Seventh-day Adventists included, united upon the points of agreement. From the actions just referred to, we can see about how much dependence can be placed upon any assurance that may be given by the Sunday-law workers that they will hold the movement for Sunday legislation “in abeyance.”

We do believe, however, that God has been holding this movement in check in order that his people might have time to develop their work, enter new fields, and prepare for the final proclamation of the message in all the world. Let us be up and doing. The night cometh in which no man can work. Let us labor earnestly while it is day. W. A. C.