The Sabbath in Politics

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 6.

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The Sabbath in Politics.

It is coming to be quite generally understood that the Sabbath is to occupy, for coming time, a prominent place in politics. A Michigan paper has the following item:—
Rev. B. S. Taylor, Methodist, preached a powerful sermon on “Political Corruption” on Thanksgiving Day, giving in plain and unequivocal language his views on the situation as now existing. He claimed that Catholicism, the liquor interest, and the Sabbath-breakers (the latter found mostly among our foreign-born citizens) were in virtual coalition, and the two great political organizations were both bidding for the votes thus controlled, and that the Democratic party would succeed in securing them, because it would bid highest and was ready to bow down in complete subserviency to this new element in politics, and that by its aid it would obtain the supremacy. He showed the entire corruption of the Democratic party, claimed that the Republican party had greatly degenerated, and that a new organization was inevitable and necessary to redeem the country. The sermon was delivered to a large congregation, and the argument was listened to with the deepest attention.