A New Ally by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 46.

A New Ally.

By Editor

It is well known that all socialistic organizations, whatever their names, are either infidel or atheistic in their sentiments. For this reason many people imagine that the "National Reform" league will have the opposition of these organizations in its efforts to enforce Sunday observance. This is a mistaken idea. A friend sends us a copy of the Labor Inquirer, a socialist paper published in Denver, Col., which advertises infidel books and publishes atheistic articles; yet in announcing a sermon on the Sunday closing of stores, to be preached in Denver, it added the following note:—

"This outrageous abuse of Sunday by doing business and compelling clerks to work thereby, on that day, depriving them of that rest which humanity demands and which is their just due, must be stopped. We ask all lovers of freedom to unite with us in attaining this much-desired end. The stores must close on Sunday."

"Saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they