p. 6 | Sunday Rest Movement and Persecution

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 28, 1907

Sunday Rest Movement and Persecution

CONCERNING the rapid growth of the movement for a more strictly observed Sunday, the United Presbyterian says: “The movement for Sabbath rest is gaining in popular support. ‘Men of all classes are in it: there are no denominational or sectarian lines; there are no party boundaries.’ We have long maintained, on Scriptural authority, that the time was not distant when all Christendom, save one small people, would be united in enforcing a pseudo-sabbath upon the world; that Catholics and Protestants would unite in this; that persecution would come, as a result, upon those who chose to observe the Sabbath of Jehovah. Christendom is uniting now for that very purpose, making that very demand, and persecution has already come along these lines. The increase of the movement indicates an increase in the result of the movement—persecution, and we shall see more of it from now on. It is no time to lose heart or faith when we know we are in the very culmination of the work.”