Religious Persecution Revived
By Editor
THE Stockton Evening Mail of July 16, has as its leading editorial an article over half a column in length, entitled, "Religious Persecution Revived." The article is devoted to an account of the trial of Seventh-day Adventists in Arkansas and Tennessee for not resting on Sunday. It gives a clear and impartial statement of the case, clearly showing that the prosecution of those men was persecution, inasmuch as they were conscientious observers of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, while thousands of others have done all manner of work and play on Sunday and have not been molested. We are pleased to see so candid a statement of the case in a secular journal. Ere long the attention of the whole country will be diverted to the movement that is on foot by the "National Reform Association," the object of which is to make persecution for conscience' sake a feature of this Government.