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Council Bluffs Mayor Moves Against Sunday Funerals

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 11, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 27

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Council Bluffs Mayor Moves Against Sunday Funerals

At the request of the carriage drivers' union, the mayor of Council Bluffs, Iowa, is said to be moving toward the suppression of Sunday funerals. The mayor has given his own opinion that the ministers of the city should refrain from conducting funerals on that day, and that they do such work in disregard of the Sabbath commandment. Query: (1) What has a secular official to do with enforcing the observance of a religious institution? (2) How does Sunday work do violence to the Sabbath commandment? “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.”