Sunday Laws and Prohibition by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 16.

Sunday Laws and Prohibition

By Editor

The religious press of the country is wont to advocate Sunday laws as a temperance measure, but the fact that two of the leading religious weeklies of the country, namely, the Congregationalist and the Christian Union, are opposed to prohibition in Massachusetts should open the eyes of the people to the fact that with very many the exaltation of Sunday as a religious institution is the first, and, indeed, the only, object of Sunday legislation. The only effectual prohibition is that which closes all saloons 365 days every year, and that is the kind which the Signs advocates.