Why Not Settle It?

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1901

Why Not Settle It?

IT is trying to one's patience to witness the ebullition in public sentiment over the Sunday question. If Sunday is the Sabbath, settle it by the Bible, and keep it as such. If not, let the apparent perplexity and turmoil over the matter cease. A writer in a New England paper signing himself as T. C. R., mentions the following “startling things” that have recently taken place there in reference to the Sunday question:—

“Some startling things on the Sunday question have recently occurred in this ‘land of steady habits.’ A city judge has decided that a clean shave is as much a necessity on Sunday as a clean shirt; therefore a barber may keep open on Sunday. In Middletown, after the arrest of fruit dealers for Sunday opening, a compromise was reached whereby they are allowed to keep open certain hours, but not to expose their goods for sale on the sidewalk. And now the Hartford aldermen and common council have petitioned the legislature to permit the use of the city parks for non-professional ball playing on Sunday afternoons. The legislature refused—on technical grounds, however. Shade of Thomas Hooker, what are we coming to!”