p. 6 | Sunday Reform in Germany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Nov 7, 1907

Sunday Reform in Germany

The work of the Sunday reform element in Germany is naturally awakening some opposition in that country. A dispatch from Berlin says:—

The “English Sunday” is not wanted in Germany. A mass-meeting was held at Frankfort to-day (October 19) to protest against its introduction into the country. The meeting was convened to counteract the effect of the congress just closed at Frankfort, the object of which was the promotion of the observance of the sabbath [Sunday] and the introduction of the rigid laws concerning that day which prevail throughout England.

The meeting is said to have been an enthusiastic one; and yet the fact that they considered it necessary to hold one shows plainly that the Sunday movement is growing there. A strongly worded resolution was drawn up in opposition to the movement, and declaring that the German people would rise up in thousands to oppose the threatened “English Sunday” invasion. The statement is no doubt true; and yet the advancing tide of Sunday enforcement is destined to overwhelm all such opposition, and that right soon. Its progress in this country is an indication of its triumph in other lands as well.