Sunday Law in the Klondike by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 20, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 38.

Sunday Law in the Klondike.

By Editor

News from Dawson City, under date of August 22, says that the civil authorities have issued an "edict against Sunday mining." "Fine and imprisonment is the penalty threatened. The miners say there is no more harm in digging gold on Sunday than in running a saloon or faro bank on that day." And the miners are right. In fact, there is no harm in any honorable work on Sunday; while drinking and gambling are evil any day. But, as usual, the Sunday law generally strikes at the most honorable employments. It is the nature of the thing. Having usurped the place of the fourth precept of God's law, it will make dishonorable, on its own ground, if it can, every other part of the law.