Without Any Sabbath by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 36.

Without Any Sabbath.

By Editor

THE Methodists of California have just held their annual Conference. Among the resolutions adopted, we find the following in a brief report to a secular paper:—

"The Committee on Sabbath Observance severely condemn that infamous legislation which, in depriving this commonwealth of the Christian Sabbath, renders it a dishonorable exception among the States of the Union. They will use both social and political influence to restore to the State the Sunday law. They recommend people to abstain from unnecessary traveling, visiting, and semi-recreation on Sunday."

We cannot sympathize with them, but we can pity them. We think they deserve it. The Sunday, they say, is "the foundation of their holy religion," and the Legislature of California has repealed the Sunday law; so they not only have no Sabbath, but really no religion. For nearly three years they have been without any Sabbath. They will petition the Legislature to enact another Sunday law, so that they may have their Sabbath again. They need not wait the dilatory motions of California Legislators. We can tell them a better way. Let them join us in the observance of the seventh day, and they will find themselves in possession of a Sabbath that cannot be affected by State legislation, for it rests on the authority of the great Jehovah.