Another Catholic Priest on the Sunday
Another Catholic Priest on the Sunday.—From a letter to the Utica Daily Press, of June 9, in which "Father" Tierman, of Camden, N. Y., answers a Protestant minister who demands a Sunday law stopping baseball games, we take the following: To the Rev. Morien Mon Hughes, I will say that there is not on the statute books of the United States a single law concerning Sabbath, or Saturday, observance as a day of rest and worship. The Jews or Seventh-day Adventists or Baptists have never got a law passed for the observance of Saturday, the Sabbath of the old law. The Rev. Mon Hughes, with all the followers of the "Reformation" who profess to follow the Bible as "the sole rule of faith," can not show a single passage in which occurs "Thus saith the Lord" regarding Sunday, or the first day of the week, as a day of rest and worship. I have before me an appeal to the clergy of the United States, which is being sent broadcast over the country and signed by fourteen resident Seventh-day Adventist ministers of Washington, D. C., that the Sunday observance laws are all wrong and against the express letter and command of the Bible. Do the ministers ever think of how they themselves desecrate the Lord's Day by keeping people from mass and setting up their rival churches to preach diversity, contradiction, and confusion on the Lord's Day? Can they blame the young fellow, who, through the prejudice wrought in him, never thinks of entering a Catholic church to bend his knees in adoration of his Saviour, and who is tired with all that is done in the name of the Holy Spirit from Luther, Calvin, down to Mrs. Eddy, Dowie, and the Holy Rollers; can they blame him if he seeks a game of ball on Sunday for pleasure or something tangible and consistent. Go back to the old church, which made Sunday, gentlemen, and learn of her what the rest was for on the Lord's Day, and you will find that the day can be sanctified not by the rest from servile labor alone, but by attendance at the sacrifice [the mass] of the new law. And that is the logical thing for the Sunday-law man to do—go back to the Roman Catholic Church and the mass. Sunday sacredness has the same authority as the mass, and no other.