Sunday Work and the Sabbath
By Editor
A Nashville, Tenn., paper has the following protest against the idea of "fifty men at work on the government building" on Sunday. The protest is by "White Ribbon," as follows:— "A spectacle to make angels weep. One to make devils laugh. It would be better to postpone the Centennial to the year 2000, or get along without a Government building, or dump the exhibits into the Cumberland River, than to insult Him who said, 'The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work.' It is to be hoped that the proper authorities will suppress the unlawful spectacle before the righteous Judge commissions a servant to proclaim, 'Yet forty days and Centennial City shall be overthrown.'" We do not object to the lady's protesting; for she has a right to protest; but we do wish to call attention to the fact that such protests are not founded in truth. "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God" still. This does not mean the first day. There are in justice no proper authorities to "suppress" such things. True, Tennessee has a Sunday law, and has enforced it in the past against men who made no public spectacle of themselves at all, but Tennessee has evidently learned better. She is going to let State employees work if they will; but let us tell "White Ribbon" and Tennessee that God will not condemn any Tennessean for Sunday work; for he has no Sunday law.