Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1908

Religious Liberty Notes

THE journal of the Louisiana Senate of May 20, contains a memorial, introduced by Elder S. B. Horton, on the question of religious liberty, the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and other reforms.

Brother M. E. Ellis, Secretary of the Nebraska Conference, recently expressed the hope that the time will soon come when there is a religious liberty secretary in every conference, giving his entire time to this work.

Elder J. S. Wightman, the religious liberty secretary of the Central Union Conference, is meeting with success in securing the publication of excellent articles in the public press of Kansas City on the question of Sunday legislation.

The May number of The Bulletin, published bimonthly by the Seventh-day Adventist Young Men's Literary Society of Takoma Park, is devoted to the subject of religious liberty. It contains many gems of truth pertaining to that important theme.

Justice Chute, of the Ontario Bench, has rendered a decision on the question of Sunday observance to the effect that a restaurant-keeper violates the Lord's Day Act if he sells any article of food on Sunday to be carried off his premises. It may be added, however, that the Lord's Day Act is not enforceable in any province unless the attorney-general of that province consents.