Cumberland Conference Opposes Sunday Closing

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 10, 1912

Cumberland Conference Opposes Sunday Closing

At a meeting held at Sweetwater, Tenn., the Cumberland Conference of Seven-day Adventists passed a resolution protesting against the recent action of Congress ordering the closing, as far as possible, of the post-offices on Sunday, as being a union of church and state. It claims that the ultimate result of such legislation can be only “religious persecution and intolerance.” The resolution also advocated the putting into operation at once by the conference a strong “religious liberty campaign to educate the public upon this question, the campaign to be under direction of Cyrus Simmons, of Knoxville, the secretary of the religious liberty department of the conference. The resolution was unanimously adopted. While fully agreeing with our Adventist friends in regard to opposition to any union of state and church, we do not see that there is any question of this kind involved in giving Christian employees of the post-office a weekly day of rest wherever it is possible.—The Chicago Israelite, Sept. 28, 1912.