ITS EFFECT | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 10, 1879

ITS EFFECT.

The terrible licentiousness which prevails on Sunday in our large cities is arresting the attention of the better class of men and papers, without any reference to the matter as a theological question. The unparalleled prevalence of lawlessness and crime in Chicago for some Sundays past, calls out an article in the Inter-Ocean, of July 1, in the course of which it says:—

“Whether there is any middle ground between the old Sabbath severity and this wild riot, we do not know. It is to be hoped there is. But if there is not, then we say without hesitation, give us the old New England Sabbath. Anything is preferable to this letting down of all restraint, and turning loose thousands of young men to contract evil habits, and be led by vicious men into excesses, which finally culminate in crime.”

Those who are engaged in the Sunday movement from a religious standpoint, will of course see no middle ground. And those who are represented by the Inter-Ocean will give their adherence to such a Sunday as they demand, rather than endure the lawlessness which now abounds. The result is not difficult to foresee.