What complaint is made against Sunday trains and Sunday newspapers?
Answer
"They get a great many passengers, and so break up a great many congregations." "The laboring
classes are apt to rise late on Sunday morning, read the Sunday papers, and allow the hour of worship to go
by unheeded."-Elgin (Illinois) Sunday-law Convention, November, 1887.
NOTES. - In the fourth century, Sunday games and Sunday theatres, it was complained,
"hindered" the "devotion" of the "faithful," because many of the members attended them in preference to
the church services. The church, therefore, demanded that the state should interfere, and enforce Sunday
observance by law. "In this way," says Neander, "the church received help from the state for the
furtherance of Her ends." In this way church and state were united, and the Papacy was placed in power.
The same course pursued now will produce the same results.
It is proper and right for the church to teach Sabbath observance, and to decry Sabbath
desecration; but it should not attempt to secure Sabbath observance through compulsory legislation; nor
should it seek to fasten upon the people by any means the observance of a day which God has never
enjoined, and for which, as is admitted on all hands, there is no Scriptural command. See admissions on
pages 133, 134, 146-148.
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How does the Revelator describe this satanic desire to destroy Christ?
14. What was the next step in their plan to secure lawful authority to carry out their unlawful purpose?
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When are the saints to he like Jesus?
In what condition is man while in the grave?
By what name are those composing the family in heaven commonly known to us?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle