Religious Liberty Offering

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 6, 1913

Religious Liberty Offering

By vote of the General Conference, five annual offerings are taken in all the churches of this country for various phases of our work. One of these offerings is taken in February for the benefit of the religious liberty work. With the approval of the General Conference Committee, this offering will be taken this year on the fourth Sabbath of February, the twenty-second. A special reading, prepared for use on that day in all the churches, will be sent to church elders in the United States and Canada, with the suggestions concerning the program for the day. The renewed activities of various organizations to secure a Sunday law for the District of Columbia, as well as local movements in various States, such as, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and California; and the opportunities offered by the holding of the World's Christian Citizenship Conference in Portland, Oregon, during the coming summer, give much emphasis to the call for a liberal donation for this line of work. It should be remembered that one third of this offering is retained in the local conference for local work, one third is used by the union conference, and one third goes to the General Conference treasury to aid in the support of the general department work. Elders of our churches should give notice of this collection not later than Sabbath, February 15, so that the people may come prepared for the collection.