The Advocate’s Moral Sunday Law

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 20, 1909

The Advocate’s Moral Sunday Law

The “California Christian Advocate” wishes a “moral” Sunday law. It says that “the enactment of a Sunday law is one way, one of the few ways, in which society can safeguard the morals of the community.” But why not prohibit the teaching of infidelity in and out of the pulpit, Mohammedanism, Roman Catholicism, Spiritism, etc., etc., with which the Advocate does not agree? Let the state enter the “moral” field and it will find no stopping place till the Inquisition is established. Let California still remain civil. In the meantime the Rev. Mr. Tufts is working for a civil rest day; but be not deceived, it is the Advocate’s moral Sunday law and the religious day of the church federation.