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Religious Liberty Notes

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 2, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 1.

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Religious Liberty Notes

ELDER A. C. GILBERT, of Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, has been appointed religious liberty secretary of the Saskatchewan Mission Field.
Two of our brethren have taken up the sale of Liberty here in Washington, and the Lord is giving them many opportunities to show the people the true principles of religious liberty.
The Supreme Court of Idaho has rendered a decision that Sunday laws are constitutional. Now is an opportune time to educate the people of that State to see that such laws are unconstitutional, and what they mean to all.
Congress has taken a recess from December 21 to January 6, so there will be no more Sunday laws introduced for a few days. Don't delay writing the Congressmen from your State, protesting against the proposed Sunday laws now before Congress.
Elder E. T. Russell is preparing a reply to Judge Wallace, of Kansas City, Mo., who has recently become prominent for his wholesale enforcement of the Sunday laws in Kansas City. The reply will be published in several leading papers in the West.
A new religious liberty tract which has just been published by the Kansas City Religious Liberty Bureau is entitled, “The Sunday Closing Movement: History Repeating Itself.” Ten thousand copies of the tract have already been circulated in Kansas City.
The University Library of Reno, Nev., has requested that we send Liberty for the library file. This journal should be regularly placed in every library in the land. Let each State religious liberty secretary see that this is furnished to the public libraries in his conference.
The Colorado Conference is planning to place 100,000 religious liberty tracts in the hands of citizens of that State, to meet the issue that is confronting them there. The president of the conference, Elder G. F. Watson, is uniting with Elder M. Mackintosh, the religious liberty secretary, in this work.
A Congressman who introduced one of the District of Columbia Sunday bills, wrote in reply to a letter we sent him, in which we urged him to use his influence in securing us a hearing on the bill, as follows: “I introduced the bill by request, but willing to do so. Have no doubt you will get a hearing.”
Here is a statement from a letter received a few days ago from another United States Congressman: “I fully indorse our Constitutional provision, which provides that every man shall be permitted to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. I don't think any laws should be passed undertaking to dictate the course of any individuals in matters of religious belief or practise.”
In the Trenton Evening Times of December 13, Brother Carl B. Haynes has an excellent article, occupying nearly a column, on the injustice of Sunday laws. Let all who can utilize the public press in teaching the truth, do so.
Elder B. F. Kneeland, president of the New Jersey Conference, writes that a large hall has been secured in Trenton, N. J., for two meetings to be held Feb. 2, 1908, where a vigorous protest will be made by our people against the Sunday-closing crusade which is planned in that city.
The members of our churches in the District of Columbia are being thoroughly organized to do some vigorous and thorough work in the circulation of religious liberty literature in the city of Washington, thus giving the citizens another opportunity to hear the warning notes of the third angel's message.