Religious Liberty Notes
By C. M. S.
THE secretary of the Religious Liberty Department left Sunday, March 12, for a two weeks' trip in the New England States in the interest of a religious liberty campaign. While on his way, he visited New York City, and held services with the churches there on Sunday night. THE week beginning April 23 and closing April 30 has been set apart by the National Reform Association as a week of prayer for the better observance of the sabbath, Sunday. We wish that while this body of men and women are thus engaged in praying for such results, the Lord might enlighten them regarding the claims of the true Sabbath and the principles of soul-freedom. BROTHER L. A. SPRING, the religious liberty secretary of the Nebraska Conference, sends this good news:— “We are glad to report that under the guiding hand of God we have been able to secure, during the winter campaign, nearly one thousand subscriptions to Liberty and the Protestant. Besides this, hundreds of subscriptions have been secured to the petition against the Johnston Sunday bill. About two thousand pages of religious liberty literature have been distributed in this State.” THE Young People's Missionary Volunteer Society of the Mount Vernon (Ohio) College has decided to take an active part in religious liberty work. We wish to thank this society for its co-operation. This is a work in which every young people's society could engage. The magazine Liberty should be in the hands of all men of prominence in this country,—principals of schools, judges, lawyers, doctors, city officials, and ministers. It would also be a good plan to have it placed in each public library and in all public reading-rooms. A SUPPLY of sample copies of the newspaper insert to which reference was made last week, has been sent to each conference president, who will see that each church in his conference is furnished with a copy. We hope that our people throughout the entire country will respond to this new plan, and help in this way to disseminate the principles of religious liberty to thousands of the citizens of this country. All orders should be sent to the Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. When ordered in lots of less than two thousand, the price will be $7.90 a thousand. If ordered in quantities over this amount, a slight reduction will be made. RECENTLY Sunday bills have been introduced into the State legislatures of New York, West Virginia, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and California. THE extra session of Congress will convene April 4. There are indications that the advocates of Sunday legislation will be on hand again, to secure the passage of a Sunday law for the District of Columbia. THE president of the North Carolina Conference writes us that the Sunday bill which was recently introduced into the North Carolina Legislature was reported unfavorably by the committee, and the measure was laid on the table. ONE of our brethren in Detroit, Mich., is planning to do a good work with the magazine Liberty in that city. He purposes advertising it through the medium of the street-cars, and also through the columns of the daily and weekly newspapers. We shall pray that the Lord will give this brother success, and inspire many others to take up this kind of work in their vicinity. C. M. S.