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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jul 23, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 30.

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Religious Liberty Notes

On Sunday, July 12, the Maryland “blue laws” were invoked at Glen Echo, Md., against the proprietor of a “merry-go-round.”
A new tract, entitled, “Sunday Laws, Whence Are They? What Their Aim?” has been issued by Elder C. H. Keslake of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and is being largely circulated in that island.
In response to a request of the local retail clerks for a Sunday law in the District of Columbia, the Central Labor Union has appointed a committee to visit the District Commissioners, urging them to recommend that Congress enact such a law.
Mr. Farney, director of religious work in the Boston Y. M. C. A., in an address on temperance, delivered at West Newton, Mass., June 28, said: “No man can ever be legislated into the kingdom of God.” “Righteousness can never be put in a man by legislation.”
Some have been of the opinion that the next session of Congress would be composed of new members. It should, therefore, be remembered that the terms of the present members of Congress will not terminate until March 4, 1909. It will be less than five months before Congress convenes again. What are you going to do during this time in enlightening the people in your community regarding the dangers that threaten the civil and religious rights of the people, as the result of the proposed legislation?
The Colorado Conference paper, Echoes From the Field, of July 8, contains the following from Elder M. Mackintosh: “The time has come when the leading journalists of the world realize that the American government is following in the footsteps of Rome. Two Paris papers, Le Journal des Debats, and La Petite Republique, interpret Mr. Taft’s nomination as a victory for the spirit of imperialism. Says the latter paper: ‘The great democracy, after avoiding this spirit for so long, ends by acceding to it; it is a bad symptom.’ And in the London paper, Puck, Mr. Keppler has a cartoon in which Mr. Roosevelt is represented as refusing the crown in 1908, but a little to one side is a crown marked 1912, on which he has one eye. Underneath is written, ‘Cæsar’s No.’ It is thus that God is using the worldly newspapers to help us proclaim the last message to the world. When all men see that the image to the beast is being made, what ought we to be doing?”