The Reason by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 21, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 25.

The Reason.

By Editor

The Pacific Ensign, W. C. T. U. organ on the Pacific Coast, says:—

"The liquor traffic claims the Christian sabbath [Sunday] as its grand hunting day, and American manhood as an open field for its brutalizing orgies."

Would the Ensign editor know the reason? It is because of the insistence that men shall not do honest labor on that day. Being cut off from legitimate employment, they seek whatever else is congenial; and the adversary of souls always finds something for idle hands to do. Enforced idleness always means mischief, as also enforced observance of religious dogmas or formalities.