Sunday-Law Petitions on Scarlet Ribbon by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 21, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 49.

Sunday-Law Petitions on Scarlet Ribbon

By Editor

A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 11th inst. mentions the opening of the National Sunday Convention in that city, and says:—

"A feature of the decorations was festoons of petitions to Congress, from every part of the country, urging the passage of the 'Sunday Rest' Bill introduced last session. The petitions were attached to a seemingly endless broad scarlet ribbon, which reached several times around and across the great auditorium of the church. They contained, approximately, 6,000,000 names."

That to which we wish to call special attention is the color of the ribbon on which these Sunday-law petitions were hung. It was a "seemingly endless broad scarlet ribbon." Inasmuch as the Sunday institution is the child of the woman arrayed in "purple and scarlet color," which sat upon the "scarlet-colored beast" (see Rev. 17:3-6), and has shed the blood of so many saints, it is highly fitting that that color should be prominent in connection with the Sunday-law petitions. We are glad that our National Reform friends have an eye to the fitness of things. If they choose to array themselves with the trappings of the beast, they have the privilege; but we will have nothing to do with his mark.