The Dragon's Ire by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1878

The Dragon's Ire.

By Editor

The predicted “wrath of the dragon” against those who are trying to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, is of late taking a more practical turn. The REVIEW has given several notices of the persecution and imprisonment of Seventh-day Baptists in Pennsylvania; and our readers have seen by the reports from Bro. Bourdeau, what experience he is meeting in Switzerland. An item we give on the third page of this number, from the Christian Statesman, shows that the authorities in Canada are determined to enforce rigidly the Sunday law there. Bro. Taylor in this number reports the case of Bro. Mitchell, of Georgia, who has been imprisoned for laboring on Sunday. And a letter from Bro. H. S. Gurney, of Memphis, Mich., informs us that he and his son, C. H. Gurney, have been arrested for working on that day, notwithstanding the harvest fields have been full of Sunday-keeping workmen, for some weeks past. Bro. H. S. Gurney's case was dropped, but an adverse decision was rendered in the case of C. H. Gurney, and he has appealed to a higher court.

Persecution is the last appeal of bigots; and this is what we may expect as the next phase of the Sunday agitation. Having no Bible to sustain the institution, the next thing is to see what the law can do; and if more stringent ones are demanded, it will not take long to procure them.