California Sunday Legislation
By Editor
We are giving in this issue considerable space to the California Sunday legislation. It is of more than local interest. California is the only state in the Union which has no Sunday law. That, by some, is considered a disgrace; by those who look upon it rightly, we believe that it would be considered a matter of honor. Christianity at her best was lived out in an empire that was wholly antagonistic to it. Every god worshiped in the Roman world had a place in the Roman calendar of gods, with the exception of Jehovah and His Son Christ Jesus. Christianity came into the iron monarchy of Rome with heathenism enshrined in every law, and yet there it won its greatest triumphs. It does not need the help of civil law. Civil law can not enforce morality. Every attempt to enforce morality or religion has resulted in injustice and tyranny. Such laws are always unequal, inconsistent. The very mildest of them are utterly inadequate to meet the wishes of their promoters. After the passage of such a law is secured, there will be constant attempts to amend it, until what is called the ideal Sunday law, the old Puritan Sunday law, is established. Such was the beginning of the Dark Ages.