Religious Liberty Special Notice

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 22, 1912

Religious Liberty Special Notice

It seems necessary to notify our brethren throughout the field that the Sunday measures now pending in Congress are as follows:—

The District Sunday Rest bill, Senate 237, known as the Johnston Sunday bill, introduced April 6, 1911, the beginning of the present (Sixty-second) Congress.

The Post-Office Sunday Observance bill, H. R. 9433, introduced May 16, 1911.

A bill prohibiting work in the District of Columbia on Sunday, H. R. 14690, introduced by Representative Heflin, of Alabama.

These are the only religious measures before Congress at this writing. Petition blanks against the first two of the above-mentioned measures have been sent out to our churches, but we are informed that some have been using the petition blanks intended for measures which had been before previous Congresses; as, Senate bill No. 404, and Joint Resolution, No. 17, etc. As these measures died with previous Congresses, petitions concerning them are of no service at this time. The Religious Liberty Department will gladly furnish additional petition blanks upon application.

We deem it preferable for the brethren to send memorials, protests, and petitions to Congress direct instead of sending them to this office,—the papers against the Senate measure to either of the two United States senators, and those against the House measure to the member of the National House of Representatives from the district in which the petitioners reside.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DEPARTMENT.