Prof. David Swing on Uniting Churches for Sunday Reform
Prof. David Swing, at a late ministers’ meeting in Chicago held for the purpose of deliberating in regard to a better observance of Sunday, made the following remark, which is a good indication of the drift of thought and proposed plan of action on this question, namely to secure the union and co-operation of all religious denominations. He said:— Group together these churches,—Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, and Catholic,—and they make up a powerful group of generals and soldiers. They can throw great armies into the field. Whoever should hope to lift up suffering humanity without asking the aid of all these heroes of old battlefields would simply show how feeble he is in the search of great means to a great end. It is evident that we have come to days when all good men must ask the aid of each other, and that by so much as they do this, by so much will the car of reform be dragged forward.