Your ShelfYour Projects

An Appeal

14%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 12, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 11.

Read the full edition

An Appeal

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

I FEEL impressed to call the attention of our people to the importance of giving our magazine, Liberty, a wide circulation. As we all know, this journal is the special medium of our cause through which we are endeavoring earnestly to proclaim the truth of the gospel regarding the true relationship and legitimate spheres of the church and the state. We believe that this magazine occupies the true ground on this great, vital question.
We know full well that our message is to warn the world, and especially the people of the United States, against the enforcement of Sunday observance by civil law. We know, too, that just now there is the greatest activity from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the part of ministers, lawmakers, judges, and police magistrates to make and enforce Sunday laws.
A similar activity is witnessed in all parts of the world. The shocking news has just reached us that one of our brethren in a foreign country has been sentenced to imprisonment for six years for refusing to do regular army service on the Sabbath day. Who can not see that the sharp crisis which we have known for half a century would come, is surely and rapidly approaching?
The last number of Liberty is a most excellent number. Many have pronounced it to be a masterpiece. It is surely one of the best religious liberty documents we have ever issued. It contains our Memorial to Congress, and it gives a clear analysis of the character of the Sunday bills now before Congress.
This number is worthy of a place in every home in the United States. It ought to have a large circulation. I do not know what can be written to more clearly and forcibly meet the crisis we are facing. There can not be a better time to give our warning message than now, nor a better and more economical way than by sowing the whole land with Liberty.
I feel deeply regarding this matter, and appeal to our conference and church officers and all our people to arouse and make the use of this opportunity God intends we should. A. G. DANIELLS.