The Coming Conflict Over Rest Day
THAT the time in which we are now living is characterized by intensity, which is hastening us on to the fulfillment of prophecy and the final consummation, has for years been the testimony God has sent, and it is now the testimony of those who write of world affairs in the secular journals. For example, note the following from the last issue of The Independent:— Events are moving rapidly in the United States, as in other countries, toward some reorganization of the political and industrial structure of society. Ten years ago it was possible for intelligent men still to cherish the hope that the day of capitalistic combinations and of trade unions might pass, and that the world might return to an unrestrained individual competition. No man in his senses cherishes such a hope to-day. The only question now is whether the coming system will be monopolistic, socialistic, or some third possibility. And how much further will this have to go before it will be held that the individual does not have the right to settle for himself the question of which day of the week shall be his rest day, and which days his working days? This question each individual must settle for himself, before God; and when it is decided in this nation that the day of individualism has passed, and that henceforth the trades union or confederacy of some other sort must decide such matters, the individual Christian will be brought into direct conflict with the powers that be. That day is coming, and it is near.