The Sabbath and Civil Law by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 29, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 22.

The Sabbath and Civil Law

By Editor

The Weekly Budget, of Ladysmith, Wis., has for its first article a sermon by the Rev. Thomas Barker on the Sabbath. He makes a splendid plea for the Sabbath as an institution and its need by humanity. This of course he draws from the word of God, but the latter part of his sermon shows that he does in no way understand the spiritual nature of the Sabbath, in demanding that it shall be enforced by law and that laws for its enforcement shall be upheld. No religious institution, call it Christian or otherwise as we will, is worthy to be perpetuated which must be upheld by civil law.