Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

Religious Liberty Notes

In the lecture department of the International Reform Bureau, as published in the Twentieth Century Magazine, the official organ of the bureau, the name of Hon. Henry W. Blair, of 1888-89 Sunday-bill fame, appears in the list of “lecturers for United States and Canada.”

The eleventh annual convention of the Wisconsin Federation of Churches was held in the city of Portage, November 16, 17. It was stated by the president that six reform organizations, which he designated as “the strong right arm of the church,” were affiliated with the movement. These organizations are the Anti-Saloon League, Children’s Home Society, Independent Order of Good Templars, Northwestern Purity Association, Sunday Rest Day Association, and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The topics discussed and the general trend of sentiment in the convention showed the same conception of the work of the church and its relation to social and political problems as has dominated other conventions of a similar nature. Referring to the Federal Council of Churches at Philadelphia, the secretary said: “It will be indeed a re-enthroning of Jesus, a King in American Zion.” Such a statement sounds like a quotation from Eusebius, the biographer of Constantine. The history of that time is being repeated.