The Sunday Law in California Again.
By Editor
THE Pastors' Union of Sacramento, Cal., at a recent meeting issued the following:— “Greeting: The Pastors' Union of Sacramento, composed of ministers of every evangelical church of the city, at a recent meeting adopted the following:— “Resolved, That it is the sense of the Pastors' Union of Sacramento that a meeting of the pastors and members of the churches of the State, and of all other friends of Sunday legislation in the State, should be called at an early date, at some central point, for the purpose of making an organized effort to secure the passage of a Sunday law at the approaching session of the State Legislature.” This has been approved by “the preachers of the Methodist Church,” and it has been decided that “a convention of all persons interested in the passage of a Sunday law shall be held in San Francisco on the 29th of November, at 2 P. M. of that day, at the Young Men’s Christian Association building, to consider the whole question and devise means for bringing the matter properly before the Legislature.” As it was the Democratic party that very properly condemned and repealed the old Sunday law, and as the Legislature is still Democratic, we have some doubts whether this Sunday law project will succeed just now. Yet as the whole scheme is of a piece with the “mystery of iniquity” there is no telling but what the subject may be brought before the Legislature in such a sophistical and plausible way as even to seduce the very party that once repealed the law. Yet we doubt it. But, although we may doubt of their success at this time, this action shows the persistency with which the thing will be followed up until they do succeed. This is now the second time the attempt has been made since the repeal of the Sunday law. Dr. R. H. McDonald, of San Francisco, is sending out addresses in every direction in which he demands a “Constitutional Amendment in this State and nation,” “for the enactment of a wise and legal Sunday law.” He declares that Temperance, and a Sunday law are “the only vital questions before the people of this State.” He complains that “the repeal of the Sunday law has robbed us in this State of our day of rest.” This and a great deal more the Doctor puts out in a form that strongly reminds us of the screamings of the Yazoo editor that were intended to pierce the ears of the North a few years ago.