Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 23, 1911

Religious Liberty Notes

A SUNDAY bill is pending in the Pennsylvania Legislature, on which a hearing has been promised us on April 4.

NINE years ago there were two hundred ten branches of the Lord’s Day Alliance. Now there are over eight hundred branches, and almost fifty thousand members. This shows the rapidity with which the Sunday movement is growing.

THE Lord’s Day Alliance in Canada is advocating that, as a means to Canadianize foreigners, they should be made to keep Sunday. Such an effort may Canadianize men, but the important question is, Will it Christianize them?

A SUNDAY-CLOSING crusade is threatened in the cities of Hancock and Houghton, Mich. These agitations afford an excellent opportunity to place the true principles of religious liberty before the citizens of the cities and towns where such crusades are carried on.

A SPECIAL religious liberty service was held with the Takoma Park church, Sabbath, March 4. To some extent the meeting assumed the character of a praise service, owing to the fact that the Lord has given his people another respite by hindering the enactment of any Sunday law during the sixty-first session of the United States Congress.

The Religious Liberty Department has just issued a four-page document, a little larger than the weekly Signs of the Times, that is well illustrated, and is filled with up-to-date, wide-awake matter on the question of religious liberty. It can be used for campaign purposes when Sunday-closing crusades or other similar agitations are on. It is printed from plates, leaving a space at the head where any name may be placed that will make it adaptable to the location where it is to be circulated. This document is printed by the Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., to which all orders and remittances should be sent. The price is $7.90 a thousand, in lots of less than two thousand. On larger lots, a liberal discount will be allowed.

ELDER S. B. HORTON, religious liberty secretary of the Atlantic Union Conference, who has been assisting the Religious Liberty Department in Washington during the Sixty-first Congress, has left for his field of labor in the Atlantic Union Conference.

The president of the British Columbia Conference, Elder J. G. Walker, is planning a vigorous campaign in his field with the two new religious liberty tracts, entitled “Should Parliament Prescribe Your Religion?” and “A Present Danger.” These tracts should be circulated like the leaves of autumn throughout the Dominion of Canada.