Persecution of Sabbath Keepers
By Editor
READ the article on the second page of this issue, concerning the trial of Sabbath-keepers in Arkansas, for working on Sunday. It will enable those who have never had a chance to observe the methods of religious persecution, to learn the peculiar means by which inoffensive keepers of the law of God may be branded as criminals. The report says that the judge likened the case of the Sabbath-keepers to that of the Mormons. In this State, three years ago, when the Sunday law was being pushed, Sabbath-keepers, who of course could not favor so unrighteous a law, were classed with infidels and the keepers of saloons and brothels, and that, too, by those who well knew the reputation of Seventh-day Adventists for morality and temperance. The false report served its purpose, however, in arousing prejudice against us. But all this, and more, we must expect. If those who "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus," are faithful to their trust, they will yet be able to prove the truth of these words of the apostle Paul: "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." 2 Tim. 3:12.