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Sunday Closing in Rome

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 22, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 30.

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Sunday Closing in Rome

Writing from Rome, Italy, "Father" Phelan, the editor of the Western Watchman (Catholic), speaks of "a strange freak of this infidel city government, presided over by the Jew, Nathan. Four months ago it passed an ordinance closing all places of business in Rome on Sunday. Now, you can not buy anything here on Sunday, except a drink of wine, not even a morsel of milk to color your coffee. Our opponents of a closed Sunday in America will take great encouragement from this. The spirit of our time is toward a day of rest and some sort of recognition of the Sunday." And all this the prophecy of God's word tells us, but it presents the movement, not as one based on the righteousness of God, thru the effect of His Gospel, but as the result of apostasy.