TRAVELING ON SUNDAY

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 9, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 22.

TRAVELING ON SUNDAY.

THE Morning Times of Oakland has the following item of interest, as showing that the workers for a State Sunday law are not a unit in their idea of the strictness with which Sunday should be observed:—

"Rev. N. R. Johnston, of this city, is out with a letter severely censuring those prominent clergymen and laymen of different evangelical denominations who, in arranging excursions to the great Eastern religious conferences and conventions, did not provide for laying over on Sunday. The same denunciation attended the excursion arranged by Mrs. Edholm and some of the ladies of the Christian Temperance Union, some months ago. On the other hand, are those who are free in expressing the opinion that Brother Johnston is making a hobby of this subject, and is riding it altogether too hard. One of our most prominent evangelical doctors of divinity said, when asked what he thought of Mr. Johnston's criticism: 'Oh, he is away off on that proposition! He says if people can't go East without traveling on Sunday, they should not go. He might as well say if missionaries cannot go to China and India without traveling on Sunday, let them stay at home. There are a few cranks and extremists among the ministers, who wouldn't cross the bay or ride in street-cars to attend religious services even, on Sunday; but they are very few. I think I could count them up on the fingers of one hand. Give most of us credit for being more sensible.'"