Sunday Mail and Religious Liberty
By Editor
Sunday Mail Blue Law.—Concerning the recent law of Congress relative to Sunday mail service, the San Francisco Examiner has the following to say under the heading "Sunday Mail Blue Law": "The stoppage of mail delivery on Sundays is a legislative fanaticism. It will reveal its exasperating folly as time goes on. The new rule can not possibly stand. It flies in the face of social progress. "It is mere hypocrisy to talk about the added hours of Sunday rest that will be given to a few mail clerks. The mail clerks, to a man, would rather have the extra pay that they have been getting for this work. "It is difficult to conceive of any Sunday work of so unlaborious a character that is so nearly indispensable to local communities. Millions of social strands will be broken every Sunday, millions of anxieties will go unallayed so long as this stupid and reactionary order shall continue in force." There will always be those who will object to Sunday laws because they interfere with freedom for their pleasures, their business, or something of that sort. But our principal objection to any Sunday law is because such a law is in fact, even tho it may not be intentionally, a direct rival of the law of the great Jehovah which requires the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. It is a much bigger question than making an inconvenience for either our pleasure or our business; it is a question of loyalty or disloyalty to the divine Father Himself. Search the Bible from beginning to end and you will not find even a suggested hint that the Lord ever changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. Men have been led to believe that such a change was divinely made, but they have been led into that belief without any Scripture foundation whatever. It is well to keep prominent the real issue in this Sabbath controversy.