p. 23 | A Judge Seeks Aid

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 17, 1916

A Judge Seeks Aid

WITHIN the past month a judge in one of the large cities in this country wrote to the editor of Liberty, asking for a copy of the charge of the judge in Tennessee who presided at the trial of our brethren. As many will doubtless remember, our brethren in Tennessee were acquitted. This justice was favorable to our views in these matters. Knowing that he would have to pass upon a number of cases where arrests had been made for violation of the Sunday statute, he desired all the information which it was possible for him to secure. When the cases came for trial, he was thoroughly satisfied that the statute was not constitutional, so the cases were dismissed.

This judge was a reader of Liberty. He believed the principles advocated in that magazine. Had his attention never been called to this magazine, perhaps his decision would have been entirely different.

In every State, in every county, in every city and town, there are those who are influential and honest, but who are not informed with respect to correct principles of religious liberty.

There are agencies at work for the passage of laws which, if successful, would do away with all religious liberty. How essential that now, before these laws become effective, men who fill important positions and men of influence be educated with respect to right principles of civil and religious liberty! With this end in view, our churches could do no better work than to send Liberty to all judges, lawyers, and other officials. One church or one organization cannot do the entire work, but if every church would become responsible to see that these men in its community are given an opportunity to read Liberty, a nation-wide campaign of education would be carried on at little expense to any one. For this class of service Liberty is mailed one year to separate addresses, where five or more names are sent at one time, for twenty-five cents a year each. If the number of attorneys in any community is unknown, this information can be furnished. All you need to do is to write your conference tract society, ordering the Liberty magazine sent to a certain number of people; and as soon as the order is received, this will be done. Now is the time to act. Will not each church do its part?