Sunday Law: A False Christian Union
"God's eight-hour bill" is what a Sunday-law man calls a Sunday law. In a meeting recently held in London the Bishop of London said that he had been over to America and seen how all the churches over here were uniting in Christian progress, and he was determined to unite those in England on all the points that he could. As we have many times outlined before, the great center of so-called Christian union is the Sunday, and so the bishop stated, "In regard to Sunday we have one of the greatest points on which Christians can be united. I look on the observance of Sunday as one of the finest pieces of Christian evidence we have, and it is a piece of evidence which can not be refuted. Secondly, we have in Sunday what I will call the working charter, and as a clever man observed to me the other day, Sunday is God's eight-hour bill. The first use of Sunday," he tells us, "is worship." And the first use of the Sunday law is to place men in that position where they must go to church. Is it not a strange thing that a bishop of one of the great divisions of Christianity should take a religious institution for which there is absolutely no authority and elevate it to the one position above all others which will unite Christianity? All such union, however, is not union. At the very most it can only be said to be a federation, a federation that is not approved of in the word of God.