The Boys’ Brigade and Sunday Laws
SAYS Theodore L. Cuyler, one of the noted Brooklyn preachers: "I observe with amazement that our Baptist brethren have introduced into some of their Sunday schools a 'Boys' Brigade.' One of their ministers announces that the 'purpose of this new organization is to cultivate in the boys a love of the military life, and to develop a high Christian character.' Can it be possible that so sensible and devout a body of people as the Baptists would attempt to put the military devil into the minds of their sons as a part of their Sunday school instruction?" And it is a cause of amazement. And yet our Baptist brethren have put themselves on the side of Sunday legislation. Why not, as they have united with civil power, train their sons to uphold and defend it? "But that would not be Christian." Neither is Sunday nor Sunday laws. Evil is in it all.