Pass in your Ballots

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 6, 1877

Pass in your Ballots.

At the late Evangelical Alliance, the “Rev. Dr. Humphrey, of Louisville,” read a paper on Religion and Politics, designed to show the relation of the State to Christianity, in which he said respecting Sunday:—

“The Sabbath [Sunday] is of God; and a man has no more right to surrender his right to it, than he has to give up his life. The Christian citizen must use his influence for the enactment and enforcement of salutary Sabbath laws.”

The “Rev. F. W. Conrad, D. D., of Philadelphia followed with a paper on the same subject,” in which he said:—

“The State must select and avail itself of a religion. . . It must select the true religion. . . The Christian religion is the true religion. Having chosen a religion, it must protect it. It may grant full toleration of religion but must not let other religions be propagated to the undermining of its recognized religion.”