SUNDAY-LAW LIBERTY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 30, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 18.

SUNDAY-LAW LIBERTY.

Sentenced Contrary to Law, and Compelled to Work on the Sabbath.

THE religious liberty granted by Sunday laws and their promoters is well illustrated in Arkansas, a little worse even than has been in other states. Arkansas has a Sunday law exempting Sabbath-keepers. Contrary to law, two Sabbath-keepers, as we related last week, were by a church committee spied out doing work one-half mile from any dwelling, where no person could possibly be disturbed, arrested, fined, and, contrary to law, imprisoned. More than this, they were compelled to work on the Sabbath. That is, they are not only not allowed to work Sunday, contrary to law and conscience, but the officers of the law compelled them, contrary to law, to work on the day they hold as sacred. This is the religious liberty granted by Sunday laws and their promoters, and where are the protests? Do our brethren in other denominations, professedly followers of the Christ who gave the Golden Rule, who said, “I judge no man,” believe in this sort of thing? Have they no protest to make? Well, God takes cognizance; we, and so can the persecuted, leave it with him. Our greater sorrow is for the persecutors. Our sympathy is with the persecuted. And the Lord sympathizes; for,