Court Distinguishes Sabbath from Sunday
By Editor
The court, in the action recorded in the following item, has taught a good lesson to those dishonest religious teachers who, in the face of the Scriptures, will steal the word Sabbath, and apply it to the man-made Sunday. The quashing of a few more indictments will show them that it would be better for them to sail under their own colors. We are sorry that any one should sell cigars on Sunday or any other day, but he has just as much right to sell them on Sunday as on Monday. The item, clipped from a recent newspaper, reads as follows:— “A cigar-seller at Bridgeport was indicted for an offense on Sunday, but the indictment instead of saying Sunday, said, ‘the Sabbath or Lord’s day.’ The court quashed the indictment because the offense was not done on the Sabbath, but on Sunday. It said the Sabbath means the seventh day of the week, while Sunday is the first, and the Lord’s day is Saturday with some and Sunday with others.”