An Important Court Decision

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 28, 1916

An Important Court Decision

THE supreme court of criminal appeals of the State of Oklahoma has just handed down a very important decision in the case of G. J. Krieger et al. v. the State of Oklahoma. This decision is a reversal of the Blaine County court decision, which condemned G. J. Krieger and son for exposing merchandise for sale on Sunday. These men are Sabbatarians, and are conducting a general mercantile business in Hitchcock, Okla. The supreme court of Oklahoma guarantees full religious liberty to all those who observe another day than Sunday as holy time. All three judges concurred in one of the most learned and able opinions which was ever written upon this subject, and it is a long step forward instead of backward.

This decision, with arguments before the court, is printed in the issue of Liberty, First Quarter, 1917, now ready.

This decision is most important to Seventh-day Adventists, as it is the first instance where a State supreme court ever handed down a decision so favorable to Sabbatarians.

In the same number of Liberty appears the report of the recent campaign in the State of Oregon which resulted in wiping the blue laws off the statute books by a majority vote of 32,163.

These two articles alone make this number of Liberty so important that it should have an extremely large circulation.

The prices are: Single copy, 10 cents; 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents each; 50 or more copies, 4 cents each. This number is especially appropriate to use in an educational campaign, sending to all leading men of each community. This number will be mailed separately to lists of names you may furnish, for five cents a copy. Orders should come through your conference tract society.