Enforcing the Sunday Law

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 3, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 17.

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Enforcing the Sunday Law

A despatch from Topeka to the Portland Oregonian under date of April 14 declares that Mayor Billard of Topeka, Kan., is bound to enforce Sunday law to the fullest. He declares that the preaching of a sermon on Sunday for pay or the singing in a church choir for compensation or the playing of the church organ for money constitutes a breaking of Topeka's anti-labor law just as much as does the running of theaters. And he also calls attention to the operation of the street-cars, open drug stores, cigar stores, soda fountains, etc. He says, "The best way to get an obnoxious law repealed is to enforce it to the letter, and that is what I intend to do with the Sunday anti-labor law." And why not? One chooses rest one way, one another. Why should civil law discriminate? As to keeping a day holy, that lies between man and God.