p. 228 | Sunday and Whisky by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 17, 1883

Sunday and Whisky.

By Editor

THE Sunday-Law advocates have persistently said that a Sunday Law is necessary to the success of the temperance cause, and we continue to deny that there is any necessary connection between the two. Afraid to let the cause of Sunday stand upon its own merits, they work upon the feelings of many well-meaning temperance people to enlist them into the service of Sunday by what we consider a palpable deception. We call their attention to the action of the late Legislature of Pennsylvania which rejected, by an overwhelming vote, a proposed modification of the Sunday Law, such as we asked for in California, that they who keep the seventh day might be exempted from the penalties of the Sunday Law. The same Legislature, by a very decisive vote, rejected a prohibitory amendment to the Constitution of that State. Thus the Legislature stood for Sunday and for whisky. The Seventh-day Adventists, who are so much derided by the Sunday people as working against the temperance cause, are always for the Sabbath of the Lord and against whisky. The action of the Legislature of Pennsylvania was a supplement to that of the religious element—the Home Protectionists—of California, who voted for the Sunday-Law candidates and, with them, ignored the temperance question. Had the professed temperance people of California been consistent and raised a strictly temperance issue, they would have found, beyond the possibility of mistake, where the Adventists stood on that question.