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    THE SUNDAY QUESTION

    It Causes the Adventists to Halt in TheirMMM 559.2

    Party Support.MMM 559.3

    The Seventh Day Adventists are still in session. Yesterday brought forth many questions of importance for discussion. First and foremost was the question of Prohibition and the keeping of the Sabbath, for the proper observance of which the W. C. T. U. is now making such strenuous exertions. As to the temperance question the Adventists are Prohibitionists of the most radical stamp, but as a member of the conference said yesterday, religion is altogether another thing, and the two should not be confounded.MMM 559.4

    The W. C. T. U. started out on the right track, he said, and we support it cordially in its endeavors in behalf of Prohibition, but we hold both by the Bible and the constitution of the United States that the government has no right to interfere in religious matters, or to enforce religious observances of any kind. This is what the W. C. T. U. is now attempting to do, but we shall resist any attempt of the kind to the best of our ability. It is altogether a matter of principle on our part.MMM 559.5

    The pith of the question, however, seems to lie in the fact that Adventists keep Saturday as the true Sabbath rather than Sunday, so that if any general law is passed for a strict observance of the Sabbath the Adventists would be obliged to make a day of rest of Sunday also. To this they strenuously object, as at present they make no difference between Sunday and the other days of the week.MMM 559.6

    “We don’t have to hunt very long to find people who will take our money on Sunday as well as upon any other day of the week,” said one of the brethren.MMM 559.7

    Upon being questioned as to whether they found much difficulty in transacting business on Sunday, one said:MMM 560.1

    To be sure a contract drawn on Sunday is void but when we trade with one another it makes no difference.MMM 560.2

    So the Adventists passed the following resolution:MMM 560.3

    Resolved, That while we pledge ourselves to labor earnestly and zealously for the prohibition of the liquor traffic, we hereby utter an earnest protest against connecting with the temperance movement any legislation which discriminates in favor of any religious class or institution, or which tends to the infringement of anybody’s religious liberty, and that we cannot sustain or encourage any temperance party or any other organization which indorses or favors such legislation.MMM 560.4

    In the forenoon a lesson was given on the law by Elder J. H. Morrison, after which a session of general conference took place. In the afternoon the Tract and Missionary Society held a meeting in which was reviewed the work of the year and the next year’s work outlined. It was recommended that persons adapted for the work and selected by the conference should attend the Sanitarium at Battle Creek in order to gain experience as nurses and to prepare to take the field abroad in South Africa, Australia and the Pacific Islands. At 5:30 a meeting was held to consider the foreign work of the organization, and to devise plans for its successful operation during the year. At the evening session a discussion was held in regard to the canvassing of the religious literature of the society. There are already some 500 canvassers scattered throughout the United States and as many more in Europe and other foreign countries. Plans were devised to make the work more efficient and the meeting was addressed by Capt. Eldridge of Battle Creek, Mich. The conference will probably continue a week longer.MMM 560.5

    n.a., “Today is Sunday” Minneapolis Tribune, (10/27/1888), p. 5.MMM 561.1

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