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Sunday Trading Report and Sabbath Rights

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 13, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 37.

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Sunday Trading Report and Sabbath Rights

The Joint Committee appointed by Parliament to investigate the question of Sunday trading in Great Britain has published its report, in which it emphasizes “the great importance of maintaining the Sunday as a day of rest” on religious and moral grounds, and also for the preservation of the health of the community, and recommends a scale of fines for offenses against any Sunday law. As the report made no mention of Christian observers of the seventh day who would be affected by new legislation, our people assembled in the annual camp-meeting in London took the following action:—
Whereas, The recently published Report of the Joint Committee on Sunday Trading contains no reference to Christian observers of the seventh-day Sabbath, notwithstanding an application on their part for permission to state their case before the Joint Committee, therefore,—
Resolved, That this union conference of the Seventh-day Adventists of the United Kingdom, now in session (August 3-12) at Bowes Park, do hereby respectfully call the attention of His Majesty’s government to the fact that there is a growing body of Christians in this kingdom who observe the seventh-day Sabbath because they are unable to find in the Holy Scriptures any command whatever for the observance of the first day of the week, while, on the other hand, they find clear evidence that the Sabbath of the Lord has never been abrogated.
This conference begs to submit that any legislation which would have the effect of penalizing obedience to the divine law would be contrary to religious freedom, and, therefore, would respectfully ask that, when the Report of the Joint Committee is taken into consideration by His Majesty’s government, this protest may also be borne in mind.
A copy of this resolution was forwarded to each member of the cabinet of His Majesty’s government. Thus a testimony in favor of the Sabbath of the Lord is being borne to men of influence who might not learn of it in any other way.