Product of a Sabbath-breaking System
"Product of a Sabbath-breaking System."—It is thus that a writer of the Advance (Congregationalist), "Deacon Pugh," discourses:— "I do not see that we need to be surprised at riot, and bloodshed, and destruction of property from railroad men. Are they not what we have made them? And is not the crime of those who patronize the Sunday train greater than theirs by as much as souls are more valuable than bodies or property? That station agent who exhaled profanity with every breath, and who swore with a great oath that he 'wished every man could be hung that ordered out a train on Sunday,' was a natural product of a Sabbath-breaking system." Yes, he was a product of that "Sabbath-breaking system" which has placed the Paga-Papal Sunday in the place of the Sabbath of the Lord. A true Sabbath keeper would have no part in Sabbath work. Why do Sunday keepers? Are they slaves—compelled to work? The fact is that there is no Bible, and very little conviction, back of Sunday keeping, or Sunday labor. The station agent wanted Sunday, not to glorify God, but to please himself.