[The United States in the Light of Prophecy by Uriah Smith]@TWC D-Link bookThe United States in the Light of Prophecy CHAPTER Eleven 18/49
The State is responsible to God for the conduct of these creatures which it calls into being.
It is bound, therefore, to restrain them from this as from other crimes, and any violation of the Sabbath, by any corporation, should work immediate forfeiture of its charter.
And the Constitution of the United States, with which all State legislation is required to be in harmony, should be of such a character as to prevent any State from tolerating such infractions of fundamental moral law. "3.
Give us in the National Constitution the simple acknowledgment of the law of God as the supreme law of nations, and _all the results indicated in this note will ultimately be secured_.
Let no one say that the movement does not contemplate sufficiently practical ends." From all this, we see the important place the Sabbath question is to hold in this movement--the important place it even now holds in the minds of those who are urging it forward.
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