THE SABBATH CONFLICT

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1879

THE SABBATH CONFLICT.

Under the heading “The Sabbath Conflict,” by which it means the Sunday conflict, the Christian Statesman of May 1 presents the following comprehensive view of the agitation of this question in this country and in Europe:—

The American people are not permitted to lose sight of the Sabbath question for a single day. In quick succession, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville have been the scene of earnest efforts for the maintenance of existing Sabbath laws. The demand of the Christian public for additional legislation in defence of the day is before the Legislature of Pennsylvania and Ohio. And now Newark, New Jersey, is the seat of a bitter and protracted struggle between the friends and foes of the Day of Rest. In Europe, the same struggle is in progress. “The International Federation for the Observance of the Sabbath” organized at Geneva in 1876, is to meet again in Berne, Switzerland, on the 9th and 10th of September next. It is important that the American Sabbath Societies be represented in that Conference. Such an international organization, serving to bind together the friends of the Sabbath in many lands, is a most important instrumentality in the pending and impending struggle over the law of the weekly rest.