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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 12, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 15.

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A Chicago Example

By Frelon A. Mott

THE great majority of individuals who are citizens or residents of the United States, do not fully appreciate or value the civil and religious liberty which has been and is enjoyed and guaranteed through its Constitution and laws.
But “times may change, and undoubtedly will change,” and “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Thorough knowledge of these principles of liberty is essential to an intelligent vigilance, and the excellent periodical Liberty, which the Review and Herald Publishing Association is publishing, is a medium through which it is made possible to place before our fellow citizens and Christian brethren of all denominations these principles which have made this nation great.
And every Seventh-day Adventist needs to keep up the study and knowledge of these things, and be ready to give a reasonable answer for the positions taken, and tell of the faith in God which he holds. Three of the Chicago English churches have decided to send Liberty for one year to many of the prominent civil and judicial officers of the city of Chicago and Cook County, thus endeavoring to give to them the principles of religious liberty.
The Ravenswood church of Chicago will send Liberty to the mayor, city attorney and assistant attorney, to the seventy aldermen of the thirty-five city wards, and also to the State’s attorney and his first assistant. The Forty-sixth Street church will send Liberty to the forty-eight judges of the appellate, superior, circuit, county, criminal, probate and juvenile courts, also to the judges of the United States circuit and United States district courts located in Chicago.
The West Side church will send the same periodical to the fifty-one Chicago police justices. The wider circulation we give such literature to people of all classes and professions, the more intelligent they will be in regard to the Christian liberty which God would have all enjoy, and the more interest will be created in the gospel message which has been given for the closing days of the last generation. This report of these churches is sent as a suggestion to our churches generally and individually of their opportunity to send Liberty to officials of towns and cities, and to men of prominence in professions and business in their own places of residence. All classes should be reached. God’s truths are manifold. Each truth is a ray of light leading to him who is the source of all truth. FRELON A. MOTT.