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The Real Design of Sunday Laws

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 9, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 32.

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The Real Design of Sunday Laws

When the Herald and Presbyter mentions the Sabbath, it of course means the Sunday sabbath, and a part of “this perpetual conflict” in behalf of the Sunday sabbath is the effort to secure more, and more rigidly enforced, Sunday laws. It is plain enough from the principles laid down in this quotation that the real purpose of Sunday laws will not be fully met until the people are brought into the churches to hear the gospel so that they may be saved. The logic of all Sunday laws leads to this inevitable conclusion. Their real design, however carefully it may be concealed, is to make men religious by law. We believe in the observance of the Sabbath, but let it be the Sabbath of the Lord, and leave every man free to observe the Sabbath because he loves the Lord of the Sabbath. Compulsory religion is no religion at all.