Literature Hinders Sunday Legislation
By Editor
In the Religious Telescope of Jan. 17, 1900, Bishop Mills, of the church of United Brethren, says that “a national law” requiring Sunday observance, “is the only satisfactory prevention of Sabbath desecration” known to him. But he says that the diligence and activity of the seventh-day observers in “putting their literature free into the homes of our land” is one of the principal things that “hinders such legislation.” Indeed, it would seem that he regards this the greatest of all hindrances to the enactment of such a Sunday law; for he says that “these Saturdarians . . . must be answered from pulpit and press before the law needed can be obtained.” Good. We are glad our literature is so effective. The Bishop says this literature is already being circulated by the “millions of pieces.” And well since we are told that it is so effective, let the literature be circulated more and more abundantly. The time is ripe for it everywhere. That bill providing for the increase of the German navy contemplates the building of sixty-five cruisers and thirty-eight battle-ships, besides a “large number of torpedo-boats and gunboats,” at a “main cost” of four hundred forty-seven million six hundred and forty thousand dollars. And it is expected to have the work accomplished “not later than 1916.”