Sunday Worship Protected Without Sunday Law
By Editor
ONE of the reasons for which Sunday laws are demanded is that they will protect the people in their worship. And some are credulous enough to believe that first-day people are really in danger of having their Sunday services broken up, because there is no law to protect Sunday. But a law to protect a Sunday institution is quite a different thing than a law to protect individuals, or societies, in their worship. California has no Sunday law, but the following item from the San Francisco Examiner of the 15th inst. shows how thoroughly people are protected in their worship:— "Frederick Schwartz and John Johnsen, who on Sunday morning last entered St. Patrick's Church, on Mission Street, and disturbed the services, were fined $50 and $30 respectively by Judge Lawler yesterday. In default of payment Schwartz spends fifty days in the county jail and Johnsen thirty days."