Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 7, 1908

Religious Liberty Notes

ELDER J. S. WIGHTMAN has entered upon his work as Religious Liberty Secretary of the Central Union Conference.

The Religious Liberty Bureau is getting out a set of ten souvenir post-cards on the subject of Religious Liberty. Each card will have a reproduction of a cartoon, illustrating in a forcible manner the question of religious liberty.

W. A. Colcord, Secretary of the Religious Liberty Bureau, is to attend camp-meetings during the months of May and June in the North Pacific Union Conference and Western Canada in the interests of the Religious Liberty work.

The Religious Liberty Bureau has just had made a large number of slides of pictures, illustrating the subject of religious liberty, which will be used by the officers of the department, in giving stereopticon lectures on that theme.

Some comment has been caused by the fact that President Roosevelt recently signed a bill on Sunday. Attorney General Bonaparte declares that this will not interfere with the validity of the bill, but has not decided whether the work of the President was a work “of necessity and charity.”

Brother S. E. Pearl, in the Wisconsin Reporter of April 22, reports that at a recent town meeting in Richfield, Wood Co., Wis., a resolution was passed prohibiting all road work on Sunday. After it had passed the town council, some citizen, not an Adventist, showed the inconsistency of the resolution.

At a religious liberty mass-meeting held in Wichita, Kan., at which about two hundred were present, a protest against the Sunday bills now before Congress was made, and a telegram was sent to one of the senators from Kansas, asking him to oppose all religious legislation. The senator responded with the assurance that the matter would have his careful consideration.

Applications have come to the Religious Liberty Bureau to have public libraries supplied regularly with our magazine Liberty. Why should not some plan be devised in all the conferences to place this magazine on file in every library in their respective States? The Bureau is already sending four hundred thirty-seven copies to the principal university and college libraries in the United States.