The Monticellonian., 1904-02-04
Supreme Court on Sabbath Breaking.

Supreme Court on Sabbath Breaking.
 A syllabus of Arkansas state laws and supreme court decisions on the subject of Sabbath breaking has been prepared, and is being circu- lated by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union as follows:
 The statutes of the state and the decisions of the supreme court upon the question of Sabbath breaking are very clear There can be DO mistak- ing the intention of the legislature, nor the language of the court upon this point. They have called a spade spade" in pointing out the duties of citizens. so that the most ignorant can not be in the dark as to what the law is.
 Section 1891, of Sandels & Hills digest, provides: Every person sho shall. on Sunday, keep open any store or retail any goods, wares and mer- chandise. or keep open any dram shop or grocery. CT who shall keep the doors of the same so as to afford ingress aud egrcss, CT retail any spirits or wine, shall on conviction thereof. be fined in any sum not less than $25 nor more than $f00'
 Section 1858 provides: Every ap- prentice or servant compelled to la Dor on Sunday shall be deemed a sep arate offense of the master
 Tn the ease of the State ys. Golf. 20 Ark. 2S9. the supreme court said: ho i'm plements of his own with which to cut his wheat. which was wasting from oyer-ripeness; could borrow none until Saturday evening; swapped work with his neighbors during the week; hired a negro and cut his own wheat on Sunday Held. that, even under these circumstances, he was not jus tified in breaking the Sabbath.
 Tn Shower vs. The State. 10 Ark, 259. the court said: Keeping a gro cery door open on the Sabbath is a temptation to vice. and therefore criminal Any person who has control of grocery may be indicted for keeping it open on Sunday, wheth- CT he be owner or not.
 Tt was held in Petty vs. State, 5S Ark. 1, that: Keeping a butcher shop open and selling meats and veg etabes from it on Sunday is a viola tion of section 1891 of Sandels & Hills digest, imposing a fine on every person who shall on Sunday keep open any store or retail any goods, wares and merchandise To commit the of fense of Sabbath breaking by keeping a store door open on Sunday it is not necessary to keep il so opened as to induce customers to open and trade. II is sufficient if the door is partially open. or Intentionally left unlocked so that any person may enter as readily as if left open. Or. if it is opened to tho knocking of a stranger and he be admitted or invited in this is keeping open. within the prohibition of the state. The foregoing is from the opinion of the supreme court in the case of Seelig vs. The State, in 43 Ark. 96. And it is to be remembered that each day such store is so kept open constitutes a separate offense, for which the offender can be indicted and made to pay a separate fine; and this, whether it is kept open by him self, his clerk, or anyone else fer him.
 "The law upon this question is very broad. embracing in it's terms ey- cry department of business or labor. and every line of their daily conduct. and it will be quite impossible to es- cape conviction for violation of any one of it's many provisions.