p. 514 | Look Out for It by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 33.

Look Out for It

By Editor

Look Out for It.—The Sunday-law people said at the close of the last Legislature of California:—

California is no longer without a sabbath law, her Legislature having passed a Sunday law bill—good as far as it goes and open to amendment another year. Our efficient superintendent, Mrs. Armstrong, writes: “Our Legislature has passed the Rest Day Bill. It gave me much hard work to conduct the petition work, and while we did not get all we asked, we are glad to get this. It provides one day of rest to all employes.”

The law passed was not a Sunday law; it only specified one day of rest in a week, and has proved to be a dead letter. But it is open to amendment, and this will be pushed the coming year. The hold already obtained in various counties in California by the religious legislationists make them hungry for more. Dr. Thompson said joyfully that they were getting Sunday laws in this State in spots, like the measles. It is like a fretting leprosy. Let the friends of liberty be awake. Sunday laws are tyranny.