Sabbath Rest Versus Corporate Sunday Labor
By Editor
PEOPLE who are “compelled” to work on Sunday by railway corporations and other business firms are “slaves of civilization,” writes the Rev. Chas. M. Sheldon in the Independent of August 29. Instead of presenting the gospel as being “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth,” Mr. Sheldon calls for the solution of the problem of Sabbath observance through the agency of the men who employ these Sunday workers and of those who control the corporation stock. We believe no employer should ask an employee to work on the Sabbath (which, however, is not Sunday); but this problem of Sabbath rest can be solved for men not en masse, but only as individuals; and then only as it is approached from the side of the power of God as set forth in the gospel, and not by appealing to the power of corporations, or of the State. Men who will not take the Sabbath when it is offered to them by the Lord, will get no good out of a sabbath given them by a railway corporation.