p. 24 | Not Yet a Law by K. C. Russell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 17, 1910

Not Yet a Law

By K. C. Russell

ALL should understand that the Johnston Sunday bill is not yet a law. It has only passed the Senate. Before it can become a law, it must pass the House of Representatives and be signed by the President. The bill is still known as S. 404, but has now been passed on to the House of Representatives. It is at present in the hands of the District Committee of the House of Representatives, this committee having referred it to a subcommittee known as the Judiciary Committee, whose personnel is as follows:—

Philip P. Campbell, Kansas, chairman; George A. Pearre, Maryland; Frank E. Guernsey, Maine; Samuel W. Smith, Michigan; Ben Johnson, Kentucky; William P. Borland, Missouri; and Samuel L. Gilmore, Louisiana.

Regardless of the State in which you reside, you should write these committees, urging them to protest against the Johnston bill and all other similar measures; but you should also write the representative from the Congressional district in which you reside, and send your petitions to him. Please do not send the petitions to us, nor to the Senate; but to the Congressmen in the House of Representatives from your district.

This bill may not be reported from the committee to which it has been referred. Should it be considered by the committee, we have been promised a hearing; and in the event the committee reports the bill favorably to the House, there is still a possibility of its failing to pass. Should the House amend this bill in any way, it would have to be referred back to the Senate for ratification before it could be passed on to the President for his signature.

Now is the time for every Seventh-day Adventist to do most earnest work with the petitions, and in teaching the principles of religious liberty by personal interviews, and in the distribution of religious liberty literature.

K. C. RUSSELL.