Treason and Sabbath Enforcement

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1892

Treason and Sabbath Enforcement

JUSTICE PAXTON, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, defines treason to be, according to the newspaper reports, 'the organization of a large number of men in a common purpose to defy the law, resist its officers, and to deprive any portion of their fellow-citizens of their rights under the Constitution and laws.' This definition is a departure from what treason was supposed to be. Our courts have of late been laying down some dangerous precedents. With this a 'Christian nation,' according to a recent declaration of the Supreme Court, with the 'American Christian sabbath' enforced by law, it may easily be seen how those who oppose it from conscientious motives will be counted, under such definitions as the above, guilty of treason and subject to the death penalty. See Rev. 13: 15.