Sunday Law and Persecution
By Editor
WE call the attention of our readers to an article in another column entitled, "The Sunday Law in Operation," by Elder Covert. It presents the logical outcome of all religious legislation. Sunday is a religious institution, originating as a holy day in the professed but apostate Christian church; and an attempt to compel its observance by law will always be attended with persecution and suffering. And while many active National Reformers would denounce such deeds, they are indirectly responsible for them, are partners in the outrage, just as much as Spies, the anarchist, was a responsible party in the Chicago riot. Spies would probably have never thrown a bomb or used dynamite, but his writings and harangues incited others to acts of violence. And this effect of the enforcement of the Sunday law in Tennessee is the logical sequence of what National Reformers are advocating. Let Sunday laws and their enforcement once become general, and the persecution will follow. Rifles, revolvers, and shot-guns will be favorite arguments against the truth.