Sunday Legislation

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 33.

Sunday Legislation

It creeps in everywhere. The Railway Commission of Massachusetts has set itself up as priest and judge. It has forbidden a company wholly engaged in the excursion business using its boats on Sunday, and limited the boats of a regular transportation company to two trips each way on that day, expressly forbidding the lowering of fare, or doing anything else which would turn the trip into an excursion. The New England Sabbath League is warring against all pleasure resorts that run on Sunday. That is, all the wickedness of the pleasure, all the evil of the excursion, is due to the day! Such legislation, decisions, and efforts are primarily for the religious day, and are anti-Christian and anti-American, according to the Christianity of Christ and the America of its founders one hundred years ago.