The Sunday Law Movement

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 12, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 7.

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The Sunday Law Movement.

As a point of interest to our readers we insert the following from the San Francisco Chronicle of February 3:—
“Rev. Dr. Gibson, of the committee appointed last month to prepare petitions and secure a concerted movement of the churches in favor of a revival of the Sunday law, reported progress yesterday at the meeting of the ministers in Young Men's Christian Association Hall. The petitions were not quite ready for distribution, he said, but would soon be, and he would like to see a pile of petitions ten feet high heaped before the Legislature. He thought the legislators would not disregard such petitions. There was a better feeling coming in, he was sure, with regard to a Sunday law—not a law that would compel people to go to church, but one that would put a stop to public amusements on Sunday. The committee had sent out circulars to all the clergy of the State, asking them to press the subject on the attention of their congregations. Some of them had done so, if not all.
“Rev. Mr. Woodworth said that Christians even were working and amusement seeking now on Sunday. He knew active Christian men who would work on Sunday when business pressed them. Others would even take their children out of Sunday-school to go to the ocean beach, or some other pleasure resort, on Sunday. Such things must stop, or there would soon be no Sabbath all. Dr. Gibson's report was accepted and the committee continued.