California’s Freedom From Sunday Laws
By Editor
The People of California Have a Right to Be Thankful.—Why?—1. Because of her glorious climate, and her abundant crops and fruitage. 2. Because of her freedom for years from great fires, accidents, droughts, diseases, calamities, and suffering. 3. Because the prevailing financial troubles have probably affected her less than any other State in the Union. 4. Because she has not yet put herself in God's place and attempted to legislate for him. And yet, not exactly that. California did once attempt such a thing, but repudiated it on short notice. California has no Sunday laws; she wisely leaves religious questions alone. This is the Bible ideal of civil government; and may we not say this is one of the reasons why a righteous, kind, and beneficent Providence has dealt so bountifully with a State which minded its own business, at least better than most of its sisters, and tacitly declared that God was able to care for his own. We know that many Sunday people predict all sorts of dire calamities on the State because it has no Sunday law, but be not deceived. There is no greater cause for thankfulness than the fact that the Golden State as a State is yet free.