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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 6, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 40.

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Religious Liberty Notes

By F. F. Bliss

At an international aviation contest in Brigue, Switzerland, a few days ago, the city authorities interfered with the aviation program at the point where the birdmen proposed to start on their flight from Brigue to Milan, Italy, on Sunday. The aviators were determined to defy the authorities, but the committee decided to disqualify any aviators making the start on the “holy” day.
Since Father Vaughan’s attack on Protestantism at the late eucharistic congress, calling it soulless, much is being said on both sides about “soullessness.” The closing sentence of the following editorial in the Toronto World is doubtless a facetious allusion to that matter; for Toronto is decidedly a Protestant city: “There is something symbolically consistent in the action of the secretary of the Dominion [Lord’s Day] Alliance forbidding a meeting of the brotherhood of St. Andrew in a theater on Sunday. Mayor Guerin, of Montreal, said the by-law was never intended to apply to religious meetings; but the Alliance, which depends on the letter of the law and not on the spirit for its aim in life, evidently had a different opinion. It may be true, after all, that the religion of some Protestants has no soul.”
F. F. BLISS.