Satan Casting Out Satan
By A. T. Jones
In the same issue is an article entitled "Satan Casting Out Satan," in which the editor attempts to show that Roman Catholics are not working for this Sunday legislation at all, and endeavors to justify Sunday legislation by the conceded right to legislate against prostitution, intemperance, etc. He evidently does not see, or if he does will not admit, that the Sunday question is a purely religious question, and a question which lies between man and God. Prostitution, fornication, and intemperance have to do with the civil rights of man, with the expense of government, etc. But he who keeps Sunday is no better citizen, other things being equal, than he who keeps the seventh day or no day. As regards the Catholics, they are as anxious for a Sunday law as are these "Protestants," only they prefer the original and Catholic Sunday to the perverted Puritan Sunday. Over and over again they demand Sunday legislation. Archbishop Ireland said, "The violator of a Sunday law is the worst of criminals." The Christian Statesman of February 24, 1894, says:— The citizens of Wisconsin are becoming aroused to the necessity of securing a better observance of the Lord's day. Week-day meetings are being held, and are attended by large masses of the population. Protestant pastors and Catholic priests unite in urging a better observance of the day. The Standard will ever find Rome on the side of Sunday; and why not?—the day is hers. But the Standard not only has left the Protestant ground, the Bible, in acceptance of the Sunday, an institution which has no scriptural warrant, but it also turns from the Protestant and Christian position of entire separation from the State, and demands human law for the support of Christian institutions. It says:— The Standard holds itself at liberty to strike for a national sabbath as it does for the abolition of the liquor traffic, or for social purity, or for anything else that the Almighty has pronounced good. We do not regard the sanction of the Almighty as a positive detriment to any law. Exactly; but there are others whose rights are as sacred as those of the Standard, who object to the Standard's interpretation of law, and who further object and protest against the legalizing of anybody's interpretation of divine law; and they have a perfect right to do this. It is neither Protestant nor Christian not to do it.