The Outcome of Sunday Laws
Ardent Sunday-law people believe in stopping all labor on Sunday, excepting what they may call works of mercy and necessity; all Sunday papers, picnics, theaters; close all stores and shops, public museums and libraries. But some of these very men will admit that Mormon teaching is worse than an open corner-grocery; others, that an open museum has less harm in it than an open Catholic or Unitarian or Christian Science or Modern Spiritualistic church. After they close the shops, museums, etc., will they next begin to close up those churches and places of meeting considered inimical to “evangelical Christianity”? Logically, to conserve public morals and religion by law they ought. Or will they make Sunday the mark of loyalty, and honor by the protection of the law every one who in form observes the day religiously, even tho the religion be the baldest denial of the God of the Bible? Have our Christian friends thought of the outcome of the current on which they are launching their frail craft? If not, it is time to pause and think.