“SUNDAY-BREAKERS;” WHO ARE THEY?
By G. B. S.
“Where there is no law, there is no transgression;” so to apply the name Sunday-breaker to those who do not keep that day as a Sabbath, is altogether out of place. Yet the term is a very common one, one that we have been familiar with since our earliest recollections, and we do not like to give it up; and while the name will not apply to those who do not keep it as a rest day, we think there is a people who are truly Sunday-breakers, and that is direct transgression of a known commandment. Some may be surprised that we apply this name to those who are the observers of the seventh day of the week; but we read, “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.” Here is a duty enjoined upon every one, not to keep a Sabbath, but to lay by in store as God hath prospered him. The commandment is plain. How many of us are there who are careful, week by week, to obey its teaching? and how can we help classing those who do not among the “Sunday-breakers.” G. B. S.