A Wonderful Power.—Says a clerical writer in the Pacific Christian:—
By Editor
"I would certainly 'give my hand and my heart' to vote for a Sunday law, if for no other reason than that it would be educational in its nature." What a plea for Christian men in a "Christian nation"! We have many laws against theft, and rape, and incest, and murder, and many other crimes, yet the educating power of these laws is not sufficient to check the enormous increase of any of these crimes. The murders of last year in the United States were sufficient to utterly depopulate a city like Fresno. And many, if not the great majority, of these crimes are committed by persons who have had the "educational" influence of law. It may be different with respect to Sunday. It has no moral basis back of it. It is a tree of human planting, existing only by human authority, a rival to God's Sabbath. That which has behind it the power of God's law manifest through the Gospel and life of Jesus Christ does not need human or civil law. The appeal to civil law for Sunday is a confession that its origin is not divine. O brethren, come back to the Gospel of the word! CHANCELLOR YORKE, of San Francisco, has frequently said of late that the Church of Rome, or her priests, are not in politics, but the late letter of Archbishop Ireland, and the utterances of Priests Phelan and Nugent, prove that she takes quite an interest in politics after all. Archbishop Ireland joins with others in denouncing as anarchy those who criticise a decision of the Supreme Court. So it has been declared by many of our Sunday-law friends concerning criticisms of the Supreme Court relative to the "Christian nation" decision. The parallel to the Supreme Court in religious affairs as held by Roman Catholics is the Pope and his cabinet. How long will it be ere it will be called anarchy, both religious and political, to question the decision of the Vatican?