HOW SUNDAY LAWS WORK

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 19, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 37.

HOW SUNDAY LAWS WORK.

THE trial of Brother Faust in Baltimore, for doing some work in his own house on Sunday, is an illustration of the utility of the Sunday law in practical operation: The police officer who arrested him testified that he had been instructed to watch the house for violation of the Sunday Act. The next witness was a Catholic, who had been heard to say that he would see Faust behind the bars yet. He had played the spy, going to Brother Faust’s house to look through the windows on Sunday. The third and last witness was Mr. Kelley, who stated that he was a Methodist; he had also acted the spy on Brother Faust’s premises, and on the occasion in question this man had gone to his place and waited to find some evidence against him, and, after informing the officer, he went down the street, and spent the larger part of the day at a clubhouse. He was employed by a manufacturing firm, and labored for wages a part of every Sunday in the year, according to his sworn testimony.