Sunday Enforcement and Moral Decadence.
By Editor
From a preamble to certain resolutions adopted at a recent conference of the Northwest Sabbath Association, we take this expression: It is inconceivable that our Republic could have grown to its present proportions and commanding position among the nations of the earth without the sabbath. The day has entered into every part of our national fabric, given integrity to the morals of our people," etc.
The reference to the "Sabbath" here signifies the first day of the week, the usurper sabbath. Then we may logically infer that the deteriorating morals in this country are due to the growing efforts to enforce upon the people the observance of this institution that has so affected the "national fabric" and the "morals" of the people. It was just so in other times; the faithful observance of the Lord's Sabbath, "according to the commandment," was a guaranty of temporal and spiritual prosperity (Isa. 56:1-7; 58:13, 14). But when Israel departed from the Sabbath, and went into idolatry—which means that they observed the solar holiday (Sunday) of the heathen, they became "worse than the heathen." Such was the influence on their "morals" and "national fabric." It is fair to reason, therefore, that the corruptions permeating every phase of our national life—political, financial, social, industrial, and religious—is because men have rejected the Sabbath of the Lord, and are more and more determined to honor the man-made substitute. More and more, men are putting on a cloak of religion to cover all kinds of treachery (2 Tim. 3:1-7), and this cloak is mainly manifest in some kind of Sunday recognition, principally in some kind of Sunday law.