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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 6, 1908

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Conducted by the Department of Circulation of the Review and Herald Publishing Association

Liberty

The First Number for 1908 Now Ready

This number of Liberty has a very attractive and appropriate new cover design, a full-page illustration of the House of Congress, and one of the President’s Cabinet, with other appropriate illustrations throughout the number. It contains “A Memorial to Congress,” and the Religious Liberty Bureau’s “Protest” against the Sunday-law movement in Washington. The following summary of contents of the entire number will give some conception of its real merits throughout:—

“Survey of the Field”—Respecting the demand for religious legislation—the outline of the different special phases recently developed, which reveal the general tendency of the times.

“Church and State”—Our ground of opposition to their union based upon a high regard for each, and a desire to promote the prosperity of both.

“A Sunday-Law Campaign”—The Protestant and Catholic clerical effort to induce Congress to pass a Sunday law for the District of Columbia, with the Religious Liberty Bureau’s twenty-two-point protest.

“Caesar’s Superscription”—The question of reinstating the motto, “In God We Trust,” upon coins of the United States, discussed in Congress.

“A State Religion Advocated”—The National Reform view of a state religion interpreted in fourteen logical conclusions.

“Baptists and Federation”—The Canadian Baptists decline to identify themselves with creeds which have any tendency to establish a human standard over conscience.

“Pius X on Church and State”—Upholding their union, with the church as the superior, and condemning the principles of their separation.

“Sunday Closing of Saloons”—An effort not primarily in the interests of temperance, but to exalt Sunday as a religious institution.

“A Striking Likeness”—Between present proposed enforcement of religious practises and the enforcement of similar practises in the Dark Ages.

“A Court Decision on Sunday Laws”—The decision of Judge Wallace (Kansas City, Mo.) in favor of Sunday laws analyzed and set in contrast with the principles upon which the United States government was established.

“The Divine Sabbath Law”—The fourth commandment of the decalogue—its Author—not repealed—of universal and perpetual obligation—designates the seventh day—candid admission of the law’s divine origin and perpetual obligation—it stands without the prop of civil law.

“The Theocratical Theory of Government”—The papal theory Protestantized to foster Protestant teachings.

“A Memorial”—Presented by the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists to the Sixtieth Congress, embodying a concise statement of the faith and the teachings of the memorialists, historical records of the disastrous results of the union of the church and state, and the present organized effort to secure from Congress such legislation as will commit the national government to a violation of its principles of religious liberty, and to the enforcement of a religious institution.

“The Oklahoma Constitution”—Providing for “perfect toleration”—the difference between religious toleration and religious liberty clearly defined.

“Sunday, Religious or Civil?”—If religious, the state can not enforce its observance—if civil, it stands upon an equality with other civil holidays,—not compulsory.

“The Sword of Islam”—The sword of submission in enforcing Mohammedanism—an evidence of human invention and the absence of the Spirit and power of God.

“Sunday-Law Agitation”—An evidence of a popular demand for a legal Sabbath in preference to a Scriptural Sabbath.

“Proposed Sunday Laws”—The character of the Sunday laws now before Congress exposed, and the principles of religious liberty to be sacrificed in their passage, cited.

“The Genealogy of Sunday Laws”—Their origin and succession in adoption.

“The Persecuted and the Persecutors”—In the history of the world, the persecuted have generally been in the right.

“Christian Liberty”—“The true doctrine is not our right to think for ourselves, but the right of the other man to think for himself.”

“Nullifying Exemption Clauses”—Exemption clauses in Sunday laws, through manipulation, often fail to exempt.

“The American Constitution”—The most remarkable document in existence,—the supreme law of the land, representing the gathered warnings of liberty from all ages, its every word distilled from the blood of martyred millions,—is not to be condemned by religious zealots, nor amended in harmony with inquisitorial principles.

“Temperance Reform”—Approved; “Liquor Traffic,” condemned; “Claims of Anti-Prohibitionists,” examined; “Taking a Drop,” is the first step down the dropping side of life; “Some Lessons in Figures,” showing how much money is spent for liquor; “Alcohol,” the great destroyer; “Temperance Brieflets,” “News Notes,” etc.

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