Sunday Law—Where Begin.
By Editor
R. S. McArthur, D. D., is a prominent Baptist minister of New York City. He believes that the saloons ought to be closed every day, and that is good; but, according to the Boston Journal of February 3, he indorses the work of the New England Sabbath Protective League in endeavoring to close the saloons Sunday. He told them in Tremont Temple, February 2:— One of the greatest dangers to the Sabbath to-day is not the saloon. It is the people within the churches who have very loose ideas as to what constitutes Christianity. The foreign legations in Washington should be made to respect our Sunday more than some of them do now. And the first sentence is true. The major part of professed Christians not only do not keep the Sabbath of the Lord at all, but treat lightly the day that they have adopted as a substitute. But it is neither good Baptist nor Christian doctrine to compel the observance of any religious institution. But if this must be done to relieve pent-up feeling, why not try it first on these recalcitrant church-members? Surely they are the most guilty. If it works well there, foreigners and others may come under its power later on.