The Sunday Crusade in Canada by H. I. Morse-Farnum

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 29, 1906

The Sunday Crusade in Canada

By H. I. Morse-Farnum

H. I. MORSE-FARNUM

An idea of the aims and the actuating spirit of the Lord’s Day Alliance of Canada may be obtained from a few of the statements of one of its representatives, Rev. T. Albert Moore, given in a recent address at Peterboro, Ontario. The following were some of his most striking utterances:—

“A ‘nation’s progress depends upon the observance of Sunday. We Canadians have much to be proud of as we now have the strongest and best Sunday law of any country in the world. Let us hand down to posterity this great boon—a sacred regard for the Sabbath—which has been handed down from generation to generation until it is our own. Since the Lord’s Day Alliance has conquered in the late legislative fight, what is our present work? Answer.— To arouse public sentiment, for without it laws are not worth the paper they are written on.

“Public sentiment is a mighty power, as the following incident shows: A certain member of Parliament was opposed to the Sunday bill; but I arranged with persons of his constituency to write fifty letters the next week urging him to represent

them by a zealous support of the Sunday bill. Subsequent acknowledgment proved that his constituency had been a compelling force.

“It is saying much for Canada that the socialists of France sent over here to the Canadian Lord’s Day Alliance for points and for counsel as to Sunday legislation, and we responded liberally.”

At the conclusion of Mr. Moore’s address, while responding to a vote of thanks, he added the following:—

“There is cause for congratulation that our strong Sunday law contains no exemption clause for those who claim to observe another day.”

This finale of the lecture reveals intolerance, and is a fitting forecast of the religious persecution contemplated by that Alliance which Mr. Moore represents. Yet it was evident that the greater portion of his audience accepted the sophistry as logic, the assertions and alleged coincidences as evidence and proof, and the whole scheme as an outgrowth of true Christian zeal; so dependent are the majority in this land upon the dictum of religious overseers, who are paid for supposed Biblical research. Few, indeed, are searching for truth as for hid treasures, to know the revealed will of God and the strait and narrow way to eternal life. The persecuting mantle of the “beast” is falling upon its “image.” Rev. 13:11, 12. Obedience is the highest form of worship. The counterfeit sabbath being an institution of the papacy (the beast power), compulsory conformity thereto is compulsory worship of the “beast” and his “image;” hence the relevancy of the third angel’s warning message which is now encircling the world. The harvest of earth is almost ripe, and gleams of eternity’s morning brightens. Rev. 14:9, 10, 18.

Peterboro, Ontario.