Christian Citizenship and Sunday Laws
By Editor
Noble Words—Good Counsel.—No better counsel could be given the Christian Endeavorers than that given by the secretary, John Willis Baer, in the Golden Rule of July 8. He said, among other things:— “My heart’s desire for every Christian Endeavorer is deliverance from all that handicaps our life of usefulness and loyal allegiance to all that shall build us up in the joy of the Lord. 'Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit.' [Italics his.] . . . Please God, grateful for all his leadership and what he hath wrought so far, we have a right to expect even greater things of him, if we will constantly seek his counsel and keep from making a league with any one or anything out of his Spirit. [Italics ours.]” And this is our heart’s desire for every soul among them; and it is because of this that we endeavor to show them the intrinsic evil of the whole “Christian Citizenship” and Sunday-closing movement. To espouse these causes (which are really one) is to make a league with the world, and the spirit of evil behind it. Religious legislation or union of Church and State in any form is not Christian or of the Spirit. John 18:36; 2 Cor. 5:11.