What Is Rest to You?

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 11, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 23.

What Is Rest to You?

Is it rest to you, reader, to lay aside all manual labor, attend church, read, idle about, eat a good dinner, and go to sleep? You meet the letter of the Sunday law. But your neighbor Smith, lean, sallow, nervous, has wrought within doors all the week at his desk. He needs, and feels he must have, a change Sunday; so he works in his garden in the morning, and goes to a park or attends a baseball game in the afternoon. This is rest, real refreshing rest to Smith. Yet a Sunday law professedly to give rest to the toiler would make Smith's resting a crime and Smith a criminal. Reader, candidly, do you want such a law?