The Growing Threat of Sunday Laws
By Editor
The postmaster-general has made a new ruling in regard to Sunday mails that is quite sweeping. Some of the papers are saying that it is the recurrence of the old "blue laws," and this may be true. But it is more than that. It is a little breeze which shows the sentiment that is growing stronger and stronger to force Sunday upon the people, and it will finally become a great popular craze, with a death penalty attached. Many will laugh at this statement, we know. But we have showed again and again in these columns the prophetic evidence that a great religious despotism is yet to grip this world; and when it does, a Sunday law will be in the very center of it. And it is not at all likely that Sunday will be observed then any better than it is now. But all will be required, under pain of death, to bow to the authority of those who want things in that way. Laugh at this if you like, but still keep your eyes open and think. The days that are ahead will change laughter into seriousness if the mind is only kept free from bias in the matter.