Finding its Level

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

Finding its Level.

In Scotland, it seems, people are beginning to put Sunday back upon its original foundation, as set forth in the law of Constantine; or at least to regard it in the same light, so far as its sacredness concerned, in which it then stood. The law of Constantine, the first law ever enacted in behalf of the Sunday rest, permitted husbandmen to go on with their usual occupation of gathering in the fruits of the earth. And now we find this paragraph in an exchange, respecting a minister in Scotland:—

“Rev. Mr. Wallace, of Traquair, Scotland, recently announced to his congregation that he saw no reason why the hours of the Sabbath [Sunday] should not be employed in case of need for the ingathering of the fruits of the earth, especially as the harvest was late and the injury done to the crops great.”