SUNDAY PAPERS IN LONDON.
By T.
THE action of several of the leading dailies of London in starting the publication of a Sunday issue has been heralded around the world, and quite generally and variously commented upon. And now the archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Established Church in Great Britain, has called a conference of his bishops for the purpose of taking steps to suppress the obnoxious Sunday paper. All of this discussion in regard to the Sunday papers is helping the cause of God's truth; for it serves to make the fact more manifest that Sunday is not the Sabbath. God's Word makes it perfectly plain that the seventh day, commonly called Saturday, is the only day that our Father in heaven recognizes as His holy rest day. And He has given, in the utterances of the prophets, the assurance that the apostasy from the Bible Sabbath shall be fully exposed. What will England's bishops do to stop the Sunday papers? Will they undertake to show that Sunday is God's holy day, and that labor upon sacred time is sin, and then appeal to the journalists and reading public to refrain from such immorality? —Hardly. They will merely call attention to the general custom of keeping Sunday, urging that their long-standing traditions be maintained, and then resort to human law to compel the observance of the man-made institution. Human institutions require human laws to secure their recognition. But divine institutions rest upon no such a flimsy foundation. The power of the infinite God is the support of all His institutions, and He compels no one. He earnestly invites us to come to Him, but He compels us never. T.