Encouraging Satan's Work.
By Editor
The Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle, of December 16, announced that a call had just been issued for a meeting at Astoria, Ore., of all the seiners on the Columbia River for the purpose of "considering proposed changes in the fishing laws of the states of Washington and Oregon at the next session of their legislatures, the particular object desired being that there shall not be a closed fishing day on Sunday." It seems that this desire is due to the shortness of the fishing season and "the difficulty the seiners have of holding their men together when given a Sunday holiday, it being necessary to hire a new crew nearly every Monday." This item shows how the enforced observance of Sunday encourages intemperance and its consequent evils through the medium of enforced idleness. It is a true proverb that "Satan always finds some work for idle hands to do," and he never suggests any good employment. So, when the state or municipality compels men to be idle on Sunday, or on any other day, the work of Satan is thereby encouraged.