p. 13 | A MATTER OF EDUCATION by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 23, 1907

A MATTER OF EDUCATION.

By Editor

In speaking of a proposed organized effort against Sunday-closing, a Florence (Colo.) paper says:

“In every state and territory of the Union except California and the District of Columbia, the sabbath is protected by law. Some ten years ago the lower house of the Colorado Legislature passed a bill annulling all sabbath legislation, but the better sentiment of the upper house saved the State from the disgrace. In most communities there are people opposed to the Christian sabbath, but in few, if indeed in any, are they the majority. Their power for evil comes from those who profess friendship but lack honest principle. If all Christians, with those professedly in sympathy with them, were united, these evils could be suppressed.”

The matter of “disgrace” is a matter of education. If our Colorado contemporary believes that the teachings of Christ is a disgrace, believes that the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution is a disgrace, believes that the granting of equal rights to all is a disgrace, then Colorado was saved from disgrace. But as long as men live of varied minds and varied beliefs, as long as the God of right and justice lives, so long is it a disgrace of the deepest dye for any State to hold on her statute book any Sabbath law. Moreover, it is a disgrace for any Christian to ask the Legislature of any State to pass a sabbath law. By the very asking he declares either that his sabbath is not divine, or that he has not faith in Christ’s power to save His own.