AS AN effort to unify Prohibition forces take the following from the last state Prohibition platform of Ohio:—
“Eighth—All men should be protected by law in their right to one day of rest in seven, and in their conscientious choice of either the first or seventh day of the week.”
But all men have that right now, as much as any man has the right to worship whom he will; and he is not deprived of it in this country. It may be said that a man will lose his job if he refuses to work Sunday or Sabbath. Well, let him lose it for conscience’ sake. If his religion is not worth that, it is not worth keeping. But suppose men chose either the first or seventh day of the week not “conscientiously”? Who will judge? Where is the human tribunal of conscience? The only true ground for Prohibitionists and every one else to take is to demand no sabbath law whatever.
Methods Political.—
A New York religious paper, the Christian Advocate, in speaking of the Sunday-law issue in that state and the attitude assumed by both parties in the beginning of the last political campaign, says of the Republican party:—
“The other party attempted in its convention to dodge the issue, but was stormed and stampeded until it was compelled to pass a resolution which commits it thoroughly.”
And this seems to be the present church method for effecting a reform on the sabbath. They ought not to complain if they are beaten in the political methods which they have adopted, either by secular patriotism, or by Roman Catholicism, or by atheism. “Stormed and stampeded,” however, are not Gospel methods; yet it was done by the religious element for a religious institution.
