A Good Example

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1916

SABBATH, July 8, the church in Oklahoma City, Okla., voted to send the Liberty magazine for one year to two hundred officials and attorneys in that city. The brethren in that place realize the necessity of doing aggressive work in educating men, because not long ago a number of our people in that State were arrested for Sunday work, and their cases are now before a superior court of Oklahoma.

Liberty is doing an excellent work in molding public sentiment and educating men in positions of responsibility with reference to true principles of religious liberty. An ex-mayor of Pittsburgh instituted a Sunday “blue law” crusade. A committee called and requested him to read a copy of Liberty. He sat up until three o’clock the next morning, reading it through before he retired. As a result, he was convinced that he was in the wrong, and immediately called off the Sunday-law crusade. He subsequently expressed the desire that Liberty be placed in every home in Pittsburgh.

A Tennessee judge says:—

“The Liberty magazine has shown itself to be a strong factor in the advocacy and support of the principle of religious liberty. It is doing a great educational work, and thereby helping to avoid a national crisis, by vigorously opposing all proposed legislation which would be destructive to the liberty of conscience guaranteed by the organic laws of the land.”

A prominent Congressman wrote the editor of Liberty:—

“I think the liberty-loving people of this nation ought to pass a vote of thanks to you people for staving off religious legislation all these years. But some day, in spite of all our efforts to hinder it, it will come.”

These are indeed times of great peril. Unless we are vigilant and watchful, the storm of persecution will break upon us suddenly, before we are aware. The situation can be helped greatly if each one is willing to do his little. A nation-wide campaign of education can be carried on if the church in each locality will become responsible for sending Liberty to local officials and leading men. Should your church be unable to furnish names, we can secure these through other sources.

When five or more yearly subscriptions are sent at one time to be mailed separately, Liberty is furnished for 25 cents a year for each subscription; or five or more in one bundle to one address, 20 cents a year for each subscription. Determine how many in your place should have Liberty; then it is an easy matter to figure the expense. Will not each church follow the example of the church in Oklahoma City? All orders should be sent through your tract society.