The Sunday Rest Association Movement

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 5, 1907

The Sunday Rest Association Movement

For years the Sunday-law advocates have sought to make it appear that the laboring men were earnestly seeking legislation in behalf of a Sunday of rest and worship. Declarations to that effect have been made and reiterated in spite of labor’s protest. Now a movement has been started in western Pennsylvania for which they are seeking to make the labor element stand sponsor. The Episcopal Recorder states that the movement was inaugurated by the working men of Allegheny County. The same journal, however, states that “the conference which inaugurated the Sunday Rest Association was presided over by Bishop Conevin of the Roman Church.” No one can doubt the appropriateness of the selection of the presiding officer in view of the nature of the movement and the relation of the Catholic Church to the Sunday institution. Neither can any one who looks beneath the surface doubt that the real inauguration of the movement was considerably farther back than the labor organizations.