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Religious Versus Secular Grounds for Sunday Laws

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 29, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 44.

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Religious Versus Secular Grounds for Sunday Laws

public interest.”
To arrest a man for working on Sunday, on religious grounds, would be a great injustice to him; but to treat him in precisely the same way, for the same act, on secular grounds, is highly proper, say the advocates of Sunday laws. They assume a great distinction between these two grounds of action, but they do not explain how any difference is realized by the victim of Sunday legislation. To a man who is being hanged it makes no perceptible difference whether the rope around his neck is a religious rope or a secular rope.