Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 19, 1906

We find the following paragraph in a recently published argument in favor of Sunday laws:—

When all is done that can be done, it still remains that, in the complicated conditions of our modern life, many men must work [on Sunday] in order that the great majority may rest. When by greed or through a desire for self-indulgence we add to that number, verily we sin against society as a whole.

It appears from this that the sin depends upon the number who work, rather than upon the fact of working on Sunday. Who will decide when that number becomes large enough to constitute a sin against society? The doctrine that it is a sin against society for too many people to work is the first article in a lazy man's creed.