p. 1 | The Pope and Sunday

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 40.

The Pope and Sunday

The Pope and Sunday.—One is expected to love his own; and so the Papacy would be expected to do all in its power to further Sunday interest, inasmuch as the day as a church day is wholly of papal origin. Therefore Leo XIII. in his recent Encyclical Letter on Labor to all of the powers of the world, says:—

The social question should be placed on a religious basis, if we would obtain at once a philosophical and practical solution of the difficulty. . . . It becomes an absolute necessity in human society that legislation in accordance with the commands of God and religion should follow and keep pace with the times for protection of those who obey the universal order of the Creator.

Hours of labor should be so arranged, giving due attention to a day of rest and abstention from labor.

It may be safely affirmed that the "religious basis" and the "day of rest" will be the religious basis and the day of rest of Roman Catholics. Apostate Protestantism in the New World and Romanism in the Old may both be reckoned upon as rallying to the standard of the rival of the Sabbath of the Lord, the memorial of creation and sign of redemption.