Another Criminal Brought to Book
By Editor
Another Criminal brought to Book.—The State of Mississippi has just succeeded in arresting another criminal. He was, when arrested, conducting a Sabbath-school on the day that Jesus Christ observed. The officer stayed to the Sabbath-school, to the subsequent preaching service of the prisoner, and the social meeting that followed; and then went home to dinner with the criminal, who afterward accompanied him to jail. The crime was doing a little work on the first day of the week, a day used as a labor day by Jesus, the Carpenter of Nazareth, and by Paul, the tent-maker of Athens. The prisoner's name is Rodney S. Owen, a preacher of the Gospel. We know him personally as a Christian gentleman, but we are not so sorry for him as we are for those who instigated his arrest, through the means of a medieval law on the statute-books of Mississippi. We are sure that the major part of the people of the State do not believe in this thing.