p. 22 | A Voice from Congress

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 11, 1916

A Voice from Congress

OUR REVIEW readers cannot afford in any degree to withdraw their efforts in behalf of our lawmakers in State legislatures and our national Congress. We were informed years ago that some of these men would be raised up to defend our people, and to stand firmly for the sacred principles upon which our nation was established. We may not see all the immediate results our enthusiasm may demand in connection with our work with this class of people, but we should faithfully labor, and rest implicitly upon the assurances given us in the past.

The following letter recently came to C. S. Longacre, our national religious liberty secretary. While we are not at liberty to publish the name of the man who wrote it, all will be interested in the fact that his stand for religious liberty is the result of reading our literature, especially that of Liberty magazine, and the personal work of our religious liberty secretary. He is a member of the House of Representatives in Congress, and says:—

“I beg to assure you that I am against all freak legislation such as you have enumerated, and shall oppose the same if any of it should be reported out for consideration on the floor of the House. I believe in liberty, both personal and religious. I have never subscribed to the doctrine that the way to the kingdom of heaven is through freak legislation.”

Keep working with our literature. Most of us can be factors of great strength in giving the message through this means of presenting it. Those who want to preach this message should begin by doing it through the distribution of our literature.