The Evening Telegraph

The Sabbath Law.

We congratulate our readers on the action taken by the State Legislature yesterday on the proposition to amend the Sabbath law. The resolution, as finally amended, read as follows:

"Resolved, That the laws of the Commonwealth in regard to the first day of the week, called the Lord's Day, be not so altered as to allow the running of street cars on that day."

This was adopted by a vote of twenty-three yeas to seven nays. So decided an expression of legislative sentiment in favor of preserving the sanctity of the Lord's day must afford the right-thinking and right-feeling portion of this community infinite satisfaction, and it may also encourage the hope that the effort to establish in Philadelphia a French Sunday is, so far at least as the Legislature is concerned, finally killed. It is, nevertheless, proposed to submit to the vote of the people of this city the question whether or not Sunday travel on the intramural passenger railways shall be allowed. It is by no means certain that the proposition in this form will meet with the favor of the State Assembly. But if it should, then the friends of a Christian Sabbath will have to do all that they may properly do, to prevent that being done by popular suffrage which the Representatives of the entire Commonwealth have refused to legalize. In the meanwhile let them feel encouraged to go forward in the good work with all needful earnestness and energy, by the success they have thus far achieved, and trust the cause of morality, religion, and social order to the virtue and good sense of the people.