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Victories for the Sabbath

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 22, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 37.

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Victories for the Sabbath

The Christian Statesman notes among "Victories for the Sabbath" the following: The Rochester, N. Y., base-ball club, and also the Syracuse club, have decided to abandon Sunday games. These might be called victories if these clubs did this from moral motives, but, as stated by the manager of the Rochester club, it is "in deference to public opinion and to the construction of the law." So in Syracuse "a strong effort was made" to "evade the law, but it failed;" and now both clubs keep the sabbath. Such will ever be the victories of a church which seeks or uses alliance with civil power,—the victories of force. Such a church is the messenger of law, not of gospel.