THE INEVITABLE END by W. N. G.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 26.

THE INEVITABLE END.

By W. N. G.

THE more the growing Sunday-law spirit is met by the Word of God and the principles of our national Constitution, the more desperate it becomes. That the advocates of enforced Sunday observance will eventually demand the death penalty upon those who disregard the Sunday institution is plainly indicated in their claim that such disregard is anarchy. In Rochester, N. Y., the playing of baseball has been classed as anarchy by the clergy of that city, and even by one of the secular papers, the Times. And the Christian Statesman, organ of the National Reform Association, utters a like sentiment. It says, "Sabbath [meaning Sunday] desecration and anarchy go together very fittingly." This spirit is wielding a mighty influence in political circles, and just as soon as politicians are convinced that their positions are dependent upon the votes of the Sunday-law element, we will have stringent Sunday laws everywhere, from the national law to the municipal ordinance. And the greater the opposition, the higher will be made the grade of the crime. That eventually, and that before many years, it will rank as anarchy, with the death penalty attached, is foreshadowed in the prophetic Word. Of the secular power which is to set up an "image" to the Church-and-State Roman "beast," the prophecy says: "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Rev. 13:15. W. N. G.