Good Sense and Universally Applicable.—
Referring to a social club’s breaking a Sunday law in Plainfield, N. J., the Christian Advocate of Dec. 10, 1908, says: “What a club can do on Sunday, the individual thinks himself entitled to do. A union of persons desiring to violate either the letter or the spirit of the law, gives no moral or legal countenance to the action. One of the greatest deceptions of this day is that a body of men have rights that an individual would not have.” Now that is everlastingly true. Rights inhere in the man, not in the mass. And that is just as true on the other side. No class or body of men, howsoever much in the majority they may be, have a right to coerce the conscience of a single soul, whoever he may be. If a man wishes to keep Sunday, he may. If he wishes to work upon that day, he has the same right. To condemn or persecute him for doing work on Sunday which is proper and legitimate upon all days, is tyranny and intolerance pure and simple.