Canada’s Sunday Law Misrepresented

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 18, 1906

Canada’s Sunday Law Misrepresented

The following paragraph appeared in a paper published in Logan, Kan.:— Dr. Davis received a letter from Rev. S. W. Gamble, Monday, stating that he had been in Canada fourteen months, and during that time he had delivered over seven hundred lectures and sermons on the Sabbath question, and that Canada was enacting a law prohibiting any one from laboring on the sabbath day (Sunday), and also that Adventists were not allowed to labor on the sabbath day, as it was considered that they disturbed the peace and quiet of the citizens of communities in which they live.

Mr. Gamble is correct in saying that “Canada was enacting a law,” but his other statements are utterly at variance with the facts. While the law is certainly stringent enough, yet there are so many exceptions made in its application that it is far from prohibiting any one from laboring on Sunday; and neither Adventists nor their work on Sunday have been made the subject of legislative inquiry or action. The law, such as it is, is of general application. The present value of the Canadian Sunday law is well estimated in an editorial paragraph from Collier’s, which is printed elsewhere in this issue.