To Secure Sunday Laws

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 11, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 43.

To Secure Sunday Laws

On other pages in this issue, mention is made of the efforts to secure and enforce Sunday closing in Cincinnati, to enact Sunday laws in each village and city in California, and the suggestions of the desire for such laws in the District of Columbia. The federated bodies of the churches are quite united in working to produce sentiment that will secure and enforce Sunday legislation, not only in every part of this nation, but throughout the world. Without any difficulty, we should be able to see that this is ecclesiastical legislation. The Sunday institution is purely a church regulation. To be sure, there are many who would like to have a Sunday holiday, but the church will never be satisfied with that. When this controversy over the Sunday institution comes to its climax, the demand will be for each individual to observe Sunday as a religious institution, and the effort will be made, regardless of faith and belief to the contrary, to compel every individual to bow before this institution of the church.

We have often presented the prophecies of the book of Revelation that make this question clear. A world-wide ecclesiastical despotism is being formed right before our eyes. In the place of seeing the menace that it presents, the majority of individuals are looking to it as one of the bright stars of hope. Ecclesiastical despotisms never have been and never will be a source of help to this world, and the one that is now forming will produce a climax that men do not realize, and that they are not looking for.