Sunday Laws and Court Decisions
By Editor
The people who wish Sunday enforced by human law (they have no divine law) ought to be willing to accept the decisions of courts. Suit has begun in North Carolina to test the law against railroads that run on Sunday, the Christian Statesman tells us. We suppose the Statesman will be willing to abide the decision, either adverse or favorable. But it will not. Sunday law people will hold to “the divine right” of courts in a decision favorable to Sunday laws, but they have no respect for the courts in adverse decisions. Those who hold to the Bible Sabbath and the Gospel method of promoting truth, are never so troubled. A court decision, whether it emanate from a justice of the peace or the Supreme Court is nothing as regards religious questions or questions of conscience. The observation of the Sabbath or its non-observance by other men is something with which judges or legislators have nothing to do. And we are glad that there are yet men occupying these responsible positions that realize this great and fundamental truth of good and legitimate civil government.