p. 152 | Sunday Convention

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1879

Sunday Convention.

A convention to discuss the Sunday question was held in Boston, Mass., Oct. 21, 22. Meetings were held in two churches, morning, noon, and night. Among the speakers were such men as Dr. Duryea, Joseph Cook, Leonard W. Bacon, Judge Strong of the United States Supreme Court, Russell Sturges, Esq., Wm. E. Dodge, Esq., and others.

The Boston Sunday Herald of Oct. 19, in an article giving notice of the meeting, said: “The Sunday question is again coming to the front. It lifts up its head as often as men think seriously of the points in which traditional religious views come in contact with current social life.” In another place it is remarked that the speakers had “evidently been chosen to represent the sentiments of evangelical Christians, in the discussion of the Sunday question,” and “to present the traditional view of religious New England people in a fashion that admits of neither answer nor appeal.”

In a notice of the same meeting, The Christian Union of Oct. 15 said: “This question is now recognized as one of the most important and pressing questions of the day, and it will be discussed in all its bearings by representative ministers and laymen.”