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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 19, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 3.

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Religious Liberty Notes

By K. C. R.

THE Idaho Conference is planning a vigorous religious liberty campaign for this winter.
ELDER S. B. HORTON, religious liberty secretary of the Atlantic Union Conference, reports excellent success in obtaining subscriptions for the magazine Liberty.
ANOTHER new religious liberty leaflet (No. 16), entitled, “Why Sunday Laws Are Wrong,” is ready for distribution. It bristles with facts concerning the evils of Sunday legislation.
BROTHER T. D. GIBSON has been chosen religious liberty secretary of the Minnesota Conference. We are glad to number Brother Gibson among the secretaries of this department.
THE Lord’s Day Alliance, in Ontario, Canada, is meeting with strong opposition to its proposal to have the government meet the expense of all prosecutions for the violation of the Sunday laws.
LET those who have charge of the religious liberty work in the cities and large towns send the general Religious Liberty Department a list of the city officials, as we wish to send them timely religious liberty reading-matter.
BEGIN the new year by sending Liberty or Protestant Magazine for one year to some friend or neighbor. When you pay for ten or more subscriptions to these journals, they can be secured for fifteen cents the yearly subscription, sent to separate addresses. What would make a better present?
THE Courier Citizen (Lowell, Mass.) of Dec. 20, 1910, contained a lengthy report of a meeting where eighteen churches of the city were represented by their pastors and others to effect a local federation of churches. E. T. Root is reported as saying: “An age of individualism gave to the churches as their one task the saving of souls. That age, in turn, is passing.” Instead of following the gospel method of saving men by individual efforts, many now seek to convert men in a wholesale way; hence the demand for a federation of the churches.
THE general Religious Liberty Department is supplying a large number of mayors and councilmen throughout the country with copies of the pamphlet entitled, “The Famous Sunday Mail Reports.” An appropriate letter accompanies each pamphlet.
CONGRESS resumed its work on January 5, after the holiday recess. From now until the fourth of March will be a time of suspense for the opponents of the Johnston Sunday bill. Now is the time to send in your petitions and letters of protest against the bill to the representatives from your State.
REMEMBER the annual religious liberty offering, to be taken Sabbath, Feb. 4, 1911. Begin to-day to plan to do your part toward making this the largest offering ever taken for this purpose. A great battle is before us for the rights of conscience, and we shall need your help financially as well as in other ways.
THE January, 1911, Homiletic Review says: “It may turn out to be providential that Japan has become master of Korea, instead of Russia, which undoubtedly, but for the war with Japan, would have taken her under despotic sway. Little liberty of conscience might then have been permitted; for the czar might have had little actual influence at such long reach over the Orthodox missionaries.”
THE Lord’s Day Alliance in Ontario is bringing increased pressure to bear upon those who indulge in the most innocent recreation on Sunday. The latest is to prohibit skating and the toboggan-slide on Sunday. The mayor of Toronto expresses disgust at the extreme length to which the Lord’s Day Alliance has gone in these things. This illustrates what religious zealots will do in any place when they succeed in getting the government committed to their policies.
THE North Carolina Conference has succeeded in getting one of the newspapers in that State to print an extra sheet, with both sides filled with religious liberty matter, which is to be enclosed in each paper. Why can not the same thing be done with hundreds of other newspapers in this country? Matter for the purpose could be taken from Liberty and our religious liberty tracts. Of course it might cost something to do this, but the results for good could not be measured. Who will try?
K. C. R.