Salvation by the Sunday Law.
THE troubles and calamities into which this nation seems about to plunge, are to be made the fulcrum for a strong appeal in behalf of the movement for the Religious Amendment and the Sunday Law. This is foreshadowed by such expressions as the following from the organ of the National Reform Association, the Christian Statesman. In its issue of May 16, it says:— “The relation of this commonwealth to the Sabbath is a question at this moment of supreme importance. On a right answer to it depends the continued favor of God, with our prosperity and our very existence.” In its issue of May 23, the same paper says:— “Nothing but a thorough religious reformation can lift our government up to the plane where divine wisdom will guide its action, and the reverence and confidence of the people will attend and support its decisions.” Just as soon as a sufficient number of persons can be brought to believe, as the friends of the amendment movement are now urging, that “the divine favor,” our “prosperity,” and even our “very existence,” depend on the proposed action in favor of Sunday, then the “thorough religious reformation,” based on legal enactments, will not be far away.