p. 22 | Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 13, 1908

Religious Liberty Notes

SUNDAY evening, July 5, the secretary of the Religious Liberty Bureau spoke on the subject of religious liberty and the evils of religious legislation before an audience of about seven hundred in the Walker Theater, at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Good reports of the meeting appeared in the daily papers of Winnipeg the following day.

The fight for prohibition is by no means over. It is stated that the combined liquor interests of the country have no less than $3,500,000 with which to fight the prohibition movement. While we oppose bad laws, let none fail to stand for good ones. The temperance cause, like the cause of religious freedom, needs the assistance of every friend and lover of mankind.

The Springfield (Mo.) Republican of July 10, says: “If the ordinance now pending in the city council is passed, in which the skating-rinks, dance-halls, theaters, and other places of amusement are prohibited from being open on Sunday, the people who are determined to be amused on Sunday will have to go elsewhere. It is the intention of the framers of the ordinance to stop all Sunday amusements, as they believe the open Sunday, when everything in the public-amusement line is permitted to run, is a detriment to the city, and an evil from which none but bad consequences can come.”