p. 6 | Good-by, Sunday by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 11, 1906

Good-by, Sunday

By Editor

WORRIED over the inability of the Sunday institution to maintain its sacredness, a contributor of the Beloit (Wis.) Free Press writes as follows:—

Good-by, Sunday! Yes, farewell! “Day of all the week the best, Emblem of eternal rest;” for surely judging by the way its professed friends even, look idly on in comparative indifference to its gradual, thorough sun-eclipse by a day of mirth, amusement, jollity, and traffic!

Marvel of marvels, especially when we remember that Protestant America at least knows but one holy day, that it should, without a struggle, allow it to sink into the most riotous of holy days.

Fellow professed Christians, is it too late to call a halt; or must we lie supinely on our backs in stupid indifference until the Christian sabbath, hitherto the stronghold of the Christian church, is clean gone forever?

This contributor is anxious for enforced Sunday reverence. We wonder how he would have written if there were not only no law protecting the day from “desecration,” but a law making it a crime to labor on Saturday—thus stripping the day of all protection, and encouraging its desecration by tacitly compelling labor on that day. This is the condition confronting observers of the true Sabbath, an institution which needs no human law for the preservation of its sacredness. The world may strive and toil as it will, and when it will, but Jehovah’s Sabbath is enshrined in the hearts of his people. Human law to protect a divine institution is like the attempt to “steady the ark;” and it is interesting to note that in that ark was the Sabbath law of Jehovah.