Ohio Sabbath Constitutional Proposal

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1912

Ohio Sabbath Constitutional Proposal

AMONG the proposed amendments to the State constitution submitted to the Constitutional Convention at Columbus, Ohio, is Proposal No. 321, which reads thus:—

“The General Assembly shall at all times protect the moral, religious, and spiritual nature and Christian character of the divine institution of the Sabbath, as a day of rest, worship, and spiritual uplift.”

According to the journal of the Constitutional Convention there were presented at the meeting of the convention on Wednesday, April 10, “petitions of the Seventh-day Adventist churches of Bellefontaine, of Columbus, of Mansfield, of Leesburg, of Cincinnati, of Chillicothe, of Piqua, of Mount Vernon, of Medina, of Derwent, of New Philadelphia, of Akron, of Waterford, of Defiance, of Lake View, of Alliance, of Locust Point, of Newark, of Wheelersburg, of Canton, of Walnut Grove, of Zanesville, of Charloe, and of Killbuck, protesting against the passage of Proposal No. 321; which were referred to the committee on education.”