Sunday or No Sunday? by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1887

Sunday or No Sunday?

By Editor

"SUNDAY or no Sunday?" is the way the advocates of a rigid Sunday law put the case. It is a very common thing to hear that "we have no Sabbath in California," since the Sunday law was repealed. Such expressions are simply admissions of the fact that the Sunday institution derives its support solely from human enactments, and that without such support there would be no Sunday sabbath. It is indeed a truth that those who ignore the Sabbath of the Lord, as enjoined in the fourth commandment, have now no sabbath in California, for the only thing which gave Sunday its religious character in this State has been withdrawn. But we have never heard any complaint from those who keep the seventh day of the week, "according to the commandment." Such ones find no difficulty in keeping the Sabbath, although there has been no civil law whatever enforcing the observance of that day; the law of God is found to be all-sufficient. If Sunday-keepers had so good a law in support of their institution, they would never clamor for an inferior one made by man.