Religious Liberty Notes
By K. C. RUSSELL
On charges of Sunday law violation thirty-seven persons were arrested by the Boston, Mass., police in and about that city on Sunday, September 24. The following is a list of States where the Sunday closing agitation has recently been carried on: Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, Connecticut, Ohio, New Jersey, and West Virginia. Elder A. J. Breed, the president of the Upper Columbia Conference, writes that as the result of a series of Bible readings conducted by Brother L. A. Wilson, a barber at Eltopia, Wash., embraced the truth. Because he closed his shop on the Sabbath, one of his patrons was indignant and caused his arrest. Brother Breed reports very bitter opposition against the truth there. Minnesota seems to be a very fertile field for Sunday closing. While the various young people's societies in Minneapolis have just adopted a resolution condemning the Sunday newspaper and instituting a boycott against it, the news comes from New Ulm that the ministers petitioned the mayor to close the gates of the county fair on Sunday. It was too late to go into effect this season; but, in the future, it is understood that the fair will be closed. A brother who has just served a sixty-days' sentence in jail at Winston Salem, N. C., says that there were thirteen cell mates in a fourteen-foot cell. To say the least, the sanitary conditions to which one is subjected in such a place are not conducive to health. It is understood that the ministers of that city will speak upon the subject of Sunday observance at an early date. The local editor remarks concerning the prospective sermons: “With the ‘light’ before them, the various ministers will have a fertile subject.” The Ram's Horn, in speaking of a Sunday closing bill which was recently defeated by the House of Lord's in England, says, “It (the bill) was ‘worked out apparently with much patience, yet21it was rejected by the House of Lords after a debate, which shows that our English friends can fully appreciate what we in this country have to experience when our House of Lords, the United States Senate, stands in the way of a fervent public opinion.”
K. C. RUSSELL.