Here Is a Lesson by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 22.

Here Is a Lesson.

By Editor

Our Sunday friends on the Pacific Coast, and elsewhere for that matter, may learn a lesson from the following fact, stated by Mr. Rader, relative to Sunday defeat in Oakland:—

"By one vote a great victory for Sunday closing was lost by one of your representatives, or rather misrepresentatives, a man who solemnly pledged to sustain the people, elected to the office of councilman on the non-partisan temperance ticket, but who on two different occasions, with apparent sincerity and with an air of a martyr, fell before Richmond, stunned and battered by the paper pellet of a political popgun."

The lesson is one repeated in God's Word o'er and o'er. Do not trust in the arm of flesh. If Sunday men rested in God, if they were championing a cause that could rest in God, and they rested it there, they would have no trouble, and would never lose "a great victory." If Sunday were of God, it could not be overthrown.