Sunday Laws and God’s Law
By Editor
A circular of the National Reform Association says: "We are advocating a constitutional amendment declaring the law of God to be the standard of legislation on the family relation." As the association is constantly agitating legislation on the Sabbath question, we suggest that, for consistency's sake, the law of God be made the basis of that legislation also. At present, and for years in the past, they have been urging the legal enforcement of a day which the law of God never has recognized as the Sabbath. There is but one way to legislate on the Sabbath question, on the basis of the law of God, and that is (1) repeal all Sunday laws, and then (2) let the Sabbath and the Sabbath law rest as God established them. All human legislation regarding the Sabbath is an assumption that mortal man is wiser than God. To set up other reasons for the observance of the Sabbath than God has assigned; to appoint another day than the day He has sanctified; to designate other hours for the day than he has designated; to prescribe other penalties for Sabbath-breaking than those prescribed in the Word of God; to delegate human executors of the moral law (and the first four commands are moral only) is to assume a prerogative above that of God. It is blasphemy.