The Sunday-Law Conscience

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 42.

The Sunday-Law Conscience

It is a strange conscience that feels it a hardship to do right unless everybody else is compelled to do right, also. But the Sunday-law conscience is largely based on this principle. The Minneapolis, Minn., Retail Grocers' Association is very solicitous about compelling all the smaller stores to close on the "sabbath," because they take away trade from the larger stores whose proprietors want to close. There is nothing in the world that displays more selfishness and more intolerance than is shown in the matter of enforced Sunday observance. The Christian conscience has no desire to see others compelled to follow its dictates, nor does it falter lest others may profit by its sacrifice.