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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 11, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 32.

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The California Campaign

By C. M. S.

Of the one hundred thousand copies of the special number of the Pacific Union Recorder devoted to religious liberty principles, ninety-seven thousand have already been distributed among the various churches of California, to be used by our people in helping their neighbors to become acquainted with the principles of religious liberty and the real meaning of the Sunday law campaign that is now on in that State. Dr. W. F. Crafts, the president of the International Reform Bureau, is now in California, and plans to spend several weeks there. His object at the present time is to help the local representatives of his bureau in securing a Sunday law for California. Every possible influence will be used to accomplish the end which they have in view. The Pacific Union Recorder of July 21 states that Mr. Crafts will use the prospective Panama Canal Exposition as a club to assist in accomplishing his purpose. His threat is to use the influence of his organization with congressmen to induce them to vote for the holding of the exposition at New Orleans, unless California shall pass a Sunday law which will enable them to close the exposition on Sunday.
This threat of political pressure and of virtual boycott is not a new weapon in the hands of political religionists. That it is unchristian and opposed to every principle of the gospel is too plain in itself to need any argument for its demonstration. But this effort of the International Reform Bureau, whether successful or unsuccessful, will result in such an education of the people of California upon the principles of religious liberty as they have never had before, with the circulation of the special number of the Pacific Union Recorder.
With every Seventh-day Adventist of California doing his duty in his community, the cause of religious liberty will be greatly advanced, whether the Sunday law is secured or not. That issue of the Recorder contains a very strong and well-written presentation of the gospel of soul freedom. It is to be hoped that many of those who receive this literature may profit by the warnings which it contains, and take their stand for truth and principle.
C. M. S.