Arguments Against Sunday Laws

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 26, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 39.

Arguments Against Sunday Laws

Arguments favorable to Sunday laws are often contradictory. One is that without such law many persons are obliged to work on Sunday or go without the necessaries of life. On the contrary, a leading advocate of strict Sunday observance maintains that young men who conscientiously refuse to work on Sunday are always the gainers. Another argument is that the dealer who wants to close on Sunday must be protected by law lest he lose in competition with his rival who does not close. And this argument is stultified by the presentation of the same advocates that those who do business on Sunday are always losers. But there is no pretext for compulsory religious observance by civil law that is not inconsistent and therefore absurd.