The Holiest Day

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 16.

In a recent session of the Parliament of Canada, the premier, Sir Charles Tupper, was asked whether the House of Commons would sit on Good Friday, and he replied that if there were no objection it would. “Sir Richard Cartwright and Mr. Davies strongly protested, speaking as Anglicans, against the House sitting upon a day which was regarded by the members of that communion as one of the holiest of the whole year. They expressed the opinion that the feelings of the Anglican body throughout the country would be shocked if the House should set this bad precedent.” So reads the Toronto Globe. And this illustrates the modern drift, to count those days holy, such as Good Friday, Easter, Christmas, etc., which God has not made holy, and to count the one holy day above all others,—the Sabbath of the Lord,—a common day. Truly the words of the prophet are now applicable: “They have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.” A bill is before Parliament to extend the scope of the Sunday law, and further oppress those who reverence God’s day. When that comes up, will there be found any in that body to plead for God? Fifty farmers have made a strong and righteous protest against the measure. Will it be heard in the interests, not of number, but of right?