p. 9 | A FABLE WITH A MORAL by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 45.

A FABLE WITH A MORAL.

By Editor

THE following fable we clip from the Baptist Argus, with the simple remark, which all Bible Baptists, it seems to us, ought to recognize as truth, that Sunday is not the Sabbath enjoined by divine command. However, as an argumentum ad hominem, the fable is worthy of reproduction:—

'Late on a warm sabbath afternoon, as a Sunday Law was just awakening from a sound sleep, he heard a stealthy step, and, rubbing his eyes, he looked about till he beheld a Sabbath Observance Sermon sneaking by, en route to a daily newspaper office, to be printed in full in Monday's paper.

'Stop,' he shouted, 'you are not consistent; you denounce Sunday work, and then furnish material to compel Sunday work.'

'O,' replied the Sabbath Observance Sermon, 'I was requested for publication, and it pays to comply with a newspaper's request!'

'Then if you were requested to steal, and it would pay, would you comply?'

'Nay, verily.'

'And yet by your present action, you are going to steal the Sunday afternoon and evening of the city editor, the copy editor, the printers, the pressmen, and mailers as they work on you.'

Hec Favula docet [This fable or story teaches]: 'That good people are responsible for some bad work.'

'Moral: "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." '