SPLENDID COUNSEL TO SUNDAY-LAW ADVOCATES.
This is what the House of Representatives of the United States said in 1880:— “If the Almighty has set apart the first day of the week as a time which man is bound to keep holy and devote exclusively to His worship, would it not be more congenial to the precepts of Christians to appeal exclusively to the great Lawgiver of the universe to aid them in making men better—in correcting their practices, by purifying their hearts? Government will protect them in their efforts. When they shall have so instructed the public minds, and awakened the conscience of individuals, as to make them believe that it is a violation of God’s law to carry mail, open post-offices, or receive letters on Sunday, the evil of which they complain will cease of itself, without any exertion of the strong arm of civil power. “When man undertakes to become God’s avenger, he becomes a demon. Driven by the frenzy of a religious zeal, he loses every gentle feeling, forgets the most sacred precepts of his creed, and becomes ferocious and unrelenting.”