Kansas City’s Sunday Law Agony
Kansas City is still in the agony of the Sunday law. Judge Wallace has indicted 1,100 violators, and seemingly lifted up with his great importance, preaches in connection with his work as judge, tells us that it is a mistake to suppose that the Sabbath is purely a religious institution, and that its enforcement is for the benefit of the church, the Sabbath was ordained before man had fallen or there was a church or the need of a Redeemer. And all that is true, but at that time man was wholly a religious man; and never has it been God's design since man fell to enforce the Sabbath for the benefit of either the church or the world, for the very simple reason which a man in Judge Wallace's position ought to understand, that God is a spiritual Being, and that His law, as He has declared in His word, is also spiritual; and no civil statute can enforce spiritual law. At best it will but result in trouble, as Kansas City and the whole United States will find.}