Hoping for More by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 14, 1882

Hoping for More.

By Editor

The California Christian Advocate is not wholly satisfied with the Sunday plank of the Republican platform; yet it thinks something is gained, and it does not dare to surrender its present meager consolation for fear of losing all. Its motto seems to be, Keep what you get, and get more when you can. Thus, in its issue of Sept. 13 it says: "We are not disappointed in the action of the Republican Convention. Its platform is the exact opposite of that of the Democratic party on the Sabbath question." But it hastens to add: "Men who pretend to be temperance men, and now threaten to bolt the Republican ticket and to defeat it, are simply tools and agents of the League of Freedom. We cannot hope to get everything we want at one time. To form a third party now would be a malicious piece of political insanity which would inevitably result in electing the Democratic ticket, and repealing the Sunday law."

In the foregoing extract we have italicized that sentence which contains the gist of the whole matter. They have not all they want; they hope and intend to get more. At the Sacramento Convention, Eld. Waggoner remarked to one of the delegates, that "what the Sunday people then asked is but a tithe of what they will ask by and by." The delegate appeared to be utterly incredulous on the point. But the Advocate admits it all. We are glad to see such statements. They will open the eyes of many.