Religious Liberty Work in New York

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 14, 1909

Religious Liberty Work in New York

DURING the last session of the legislature at Albany five Sunday bills were introduced. In company with the presidents of the other New York conferences, we attended the hearing upon these bills. The prompt action of the friends throughout the State in telegraphing their objections to the bills, and the formidable array presented against a favorable report of the committees, disconcerted the instigators of such legislation; and they allowed the bills to die in the committees without calling them up. Undoubtedly the same bills will come up again this winter, and with a show of force behind them that will not allow us the victory on so easy terms. Plans should be laid to carry on a vigorous educational campaign.

Every enlightened soul should be awake to the crisis that is just before us. The magazine Liberty should be taken by every family, and circulated in every community.—New York Indicator.

A brother, writing from Texas, says: “I think the question of Sunday enforcement will soon be the leading question in this State. At a Methodist conference held at Beaumont the latter part of November, a resolution to unite with other organizations in appealing to the next legislature in behalf of Sunday laws was adopted. Governor Campbell is giving his support to the closing of saloons on Sunday.”

Under date of December 15, Elder E. E. Andross writes as follows: “We are in the midst of a strenuous campaign here in California, in opposition to the proposed Sunday law, which is to be pressed in the legislature. For many years California has stood opposed to any sort of Sunday law, but now the advocates of the Sunday law are laying well-defined plans, and are very energetically pursuing these to get the measure through the next legislature if possible.”