SUNDAY-LAW WORKERS IN CALIFORNIA.
THE Sunday observance forces in some parts of California are exceedingly active at present. The Pacific Christian Endeavorer gives reports from a number of Lord's Day Committees. It says:— "Forty Lord's Day Committees reported in one week, and sixty within two weeks. . . . Wheatville Union is organized for sabbath defense, altho there is not a store or post-office within seven miles. . . . The special Lord's Day Committee of the Los Angeles City Union has succeeded in its attempt to stop the doing of contract work on Sunday. . . . Santa Clara Presbyterian Society reports sabbath observance discussed in the pulpit, in the Sunday-school, Endeavor Society, and mid-week prayer-meeting. . . . Grass Valley Congregational Society has had a hard-working Sabbath Committee for the past year, but thus far have been unsuccessful in securing Sunday closing. . . . Some idea of the magnitude of the work in sending out sabbath observance literature can be gained from the fact that the 80,000 leaflets sent out last week made a pile twenty feet high. . . . Some of us have become so interested in sabbath reform that we have entirely forgotten that we started out to win a banner. Long ago we realized that the banner could only be an incentive and not a motive. . . . The Placerville Presbyterian Society, the only one in El Dorado County, is circulating a petition for Sunday closing." A report is given from one pastor who seems to have had his eyes open to the iniquity of at least one feature of this Sunday-observance agitation. He truthfully says: "In pressing for Sunday-observance legislation we endanger the religious liberty so dearly bought by our forefathers, and the separation of Church and State."