Sunday Laws Oppose God’s Law
By Editor
own conscience." The Sabbath belongs to God, and its observance should be rendered to God, and not to civil government. Enforced Sunday rest means enforced Sunday idleness, and idleness is still the devil's workshop. Sunday laws are responsible for much of the Sunday dissipation. God commands men to keep the Sabbath "holy," and unless it is kept thus it is better not kept at all. And as the state can not of right command men to keep a day holy, it has no right to command them to keep it at all. Moreover, Sunday laws are in direct conflict with the law of God, which says that "the seventh day is the Sabbath." In this issue, as in days of old, men will have to decide whom they will obey, God or men. The apostle said, "We ought to obey God rather than men." In all ages God has vindicated and approved those who stood for this principle even against the largest majorities and the strongest earthly kingdoms. The deliverance of Peter from prison, of Daniel from the lion's den, and of the three Hebrew captives from the fiery furnace is sufficient proof of this. Divine religious institutions do not require the aid of civil law. No believer in Christian baptism, the Lord's Supper, or the seventh day Sabbath ever asks or seeks for laws from the state compelling their observance. The Bible enjoins their observance, and that is sufficient. But not so with the Sunday. For this sabbatical observance there is no divine command. To make up for this lack of divine authority men are seeking the strong arm of the state. If they would walk in the light as it is now shining, and return to the observance of the Bible Sabbath, no such course would be thought necessary. Refusing the true reform, they inaugurate a false one. We have entered upon stirring times. Evidently the days of persecution for conscience' sake are not all past. Through Sunday legislation church and state are being united in the United States, and the glorious principles of civil and religious liberty which have made this nation great, and its name a praise throughout the earth, are being forgotten, ignored, and trampled in the dust. It is time every lover of liberty sounded a note of warning, and took his stand against this thing.