Sunday Is a Pagan Institution
By Editor
The New York Evangelist notes the fact that the session of the Central Presbyterian Church, of Rochester, N. Y., is energetically protesting against the Sunday "desecration" that is carried on in that city, and says that its action is to be followed up by the other churches. It then adds: "Only a prompt, firm, and united stand will make head against present inroads upon the Sabbath [by which it means Sunday] and other of our cherished American institutions." Calling Sunday an "American institution" is far better than calling it the Christian Sabbath or the Lord's day; but we protest against it. We claim an interest in all American institutions, but we have none in Sunday. Sunday is a pagan institution, and nothing else can be made of it, whatever it may be called.