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Sunday Law Has Its Roots in Religion

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 12, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 48.

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Sunday Law Has Its Roots in Religion

the police regulation pretext are all mere subterfuges to veil the real purpose of the desired law. And this has been many times acknowledged by the religious advocates of the measure. Any purpose excepting a religious regard for the day could be conserved by resting on any other day of the week; but no advocate of a legal rest-day would consider for a moment the adoption of any day but Sunday. Why?—Because, as declared by a prominent Fresno pastor, the Sunday law "has its roots in religion."