Does the Petition Work Amount to Anything? by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1909

Does the Petition Work Amount to Anything?

By W. A. C.

Rev. G. L. Tufts, the International Reform Bureau Sunday-law worker on the Pacific Coast, said to us, “If you will agree not to circulate petitions, we will not do so.” It is generally pretty safe to do just the opposite of what the enemies of truth ask you to do. This is what our California brethren thought, so they answered this proposition by sending in to the California Legislature petitions against Sunday legislation, bearing 35,535 signatures, gathered from every county in the State.

Think of this, brother, sister, when some one tries to dissuade you from circulating petitions against religious legislation, and says they do not amount to anything. If the petition work did not amount to anything, why would the advocates of Sunday legislation be anxious that we should not engage in it?

W. A. C.