A Proposed Sunday Law Campaign in Louisiana by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 13, 1910

A Proposed Sunday Law Campaign in Louisiana

By W. A. C.

RESOLUTIONS passed at a Baptist ministers' convention held recently at Mansfield, La., places that body on record as favoring the application of a rigid Sunday law in all sections of the State, and indicates that a State-wide Sunday-law crusade is planned for there in the near future. Following are the resolutions referred to:—

“Resolved, That we, the representatives of the Baptists of the State of Louisiana, fifty-five thousand strong, desire to place ourselves on record as opposed to sabbath desecration and widespread intemperance, now common in this State; and,—

“Be It Resolved, To appoint a committee of three laymen and two ministers to prepare a memorial to the next session of the State legislature, urging legislation for suppression of all kinds of sport on the sabbath, including picnics, baseball, fishing, hunting, theaters, excursions by train or boat, either public or private, and the enactment of laws to prevent the opening of any kind of store or place of business on Sunday, providing that drug stores may be allowed to fill physicians' prescriptions on that day; and,—

“Be It Further Resolved, That we will make an effort to have submitted to the voters of the State the question of constitutional suppression of the liquor traffic.”

The Baptists are forgetting the principles of soul liberty and separation of church and state for which they have contended so nobly in the past, and are joining with the friends of religious legislation.

In this proposed crusade it will be noted that the temperance movement and the Sunday-law movement are combined, the good with the evil, reforms that are needed with reforms that are destructive “deforms.”

W. A. C.