Religious Liberty Notes
By K. C. Russell
The Wisconsin Reporter states that Elder H. W. Reed attended the meeting of the Anti-Saloon League at Stevens Point, and will also attend the convention of the Sunday Rest Day Association, at Sparta. The president of the Wisconsin Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Elder C. McReynolds, reports that a campaign has been begun in Wisconsin in the interest of Sunday legislation, by two National Reformers, who are going from town to town on a lecture tour. It has been planned to supply these places with religious liberty leaflets. The Literary Digest of September 30, in speaking of the great conference for religious co-operation, which is to begin in New York City November 15, says that it will have representatives of more21than seventeen million church-members, and twenty-six different communions. One of the chief topics to be discussed will be sabbath (Sunday) desecration. The September number of the Christian Statesman says, “This nation is moving steadily and surely toward the understanding and the acknowledgment of the Christian principle of civil government.” This statement from the National Reform organ, which stands for a union of church and state, is an admission that this country is departing from the principle of a total separation of church and state upon which it was founded. Elder A. T. Robinson, president of the Nebraska Conference, writes that a Sunday observance campaign started by the ministers was to begin the 3d inst. in Lincoln, Neb. The evening before the campaign opens, Professor Kern, with a company of volunteer students, was to place an envelope containing the set of four religious liberty leaflets in every home in the city. The following pertinent words are printed in red on each envelope: “The movement is on in Lincoln. Are you in favor of better Sabbath observance, enforced by a civil authority? Please study the principles presented in the enclosed leaflet.” We are grateful to our people for acting so promptly in an issue like this.