THE SUNDAY MOVEMENT by David Swing

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1879

THE SUNDAY MOVEMENT.

By David Swing

Chicago preachers recall few so large gatherings of their number as came together last week to consider the Sabbath question. Speeches were made and resolutions passed, and arrangements made for a united effort on the part of all citizens without respect to religious convictions. Those present realized that they had opened a war which might be a long one, and want every man to enlist. It is a matter of great interest that a similar movement is springing up in other cities. Dayton, Ohio, is organizing in defense of the day of rest. Newark, N. J., has begun in earnest to enforce the law for Sabbath observance. Saloons, cigar stores, and Sunday papers have to retire. In Springfield, Ohio, the Christian people have formed a law-and-order association for the suppression of Sabbath desecration. The effort of the Chicago meeting is to secure simply a day of rest, a Sunday and not a Sabbath. They cannot therefore hope for that success from an appeal to a secular ordinance as might be gained from standing firmly by the law of God. But the movement is a noble one, and will result in good to our city.—David Swing.