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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 18, 1879

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 25

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ANOTHER VIEW.

THE readers of the REVIEW will remember that Eld. J. N. Loughborough, in a recent article, mentioned the effort that had been made in London to open the Guildhall library on Sunday. They will no doubt be interested in the following from the Christian Weekly, giving another view of the subject. The Christian Weekly does not mention the liquor saloons, which are open on all days of the week, from whose influence those interested in opening the libraries on Sunday would be glad to shield the young men of that great city. Do not these threaten “encroachments on our [their] day of rest.”
Christians in Great Britain are watching with much concern the insidious efforts that are persistently made to break down reverence for the Sabbath day, by encouraging and sanctioning the opening of libraries, museums, and places of amusement and entertainment. The Sunday League is not discouraged by the want of success its efforts have generally met hitherto. Its latest assault has been upon the London Common Council for the opening of the City Library on Sunday afternoons. It was defeated, but will doubtless return to the attack. Evangelical Christendom puts the matter in its true light, and its words apply to our country as well as to Great Britain, when it says: “We are no alarmists, nor would we conserve any institution which could not be maintained or defended from considerations of justice and of right; but we are of all things concerned to uphold, for all classes, the right and privilege of Sabbath rest—an observance which, more than any other, has tended to preserve among us not only the ordinances and the spirit of religion, but also the health, the well-being, and the freedom of our people—blessings but too lightly esteemed by those who are thoughtlessly or wilfully endeavoring to assimilate our Sabbath to the Continental Sunday.” We cannot be too vigilant in resisting the encroachments upon our day of rest.