Religious Liberty Notes by Frederick Bliss

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 22, 1910

Religious Liberty Notes

By Frederick Bliss

ELDER N. S. ASHTON, religious liberty secretary of the West Pennsylvania Conference, has taken a vigorous interest in the Liberty campaign, and is getting hundreds of subscriptions.

We are indebted to Dr. B. J. Ferriot, of Canton, Ohio, for a report of the State civic congress recently held in that city. We hope our friends everywhere will treat us similarly when such gatherings are held near them.

THE friends of a “closed Sunday” are besieging the Los Angeles postmaster for closed post-office windows on the first day of the week, but are not having an easy victory. That federal functionary says the office has always been open on all days of the week, and will continue that liberal policy.

IMITATING the Carnegie Education Foundation, the churches of New York City have incorporated a Christian Unity Foundation, including the Protestant, Catholic, and Greek faiths. This is a new form of “church unity.” A wealthy layman has offered ten thousand dollars to help on the project, “that the various Christian bodies may be knit together in more evident unity in the essentials of faith and practise and in one organized body.”

A BITTER Sunday-law fight is on in Bismarck, N. D. Those opposed to such laws and ordinances are pushing the other side to the “logical point,” which means closing up everything possible, and are hoping to make it impossible even to buy a newspaper, employ a hack or bus, or send a telegram.

INDIANA has been holding a church-union council, with representatives of the leading denominations in attendance. A presiding elder in one of the great denominations told the convention that he had found a place where his denomination was weak and another strong, and he advised his people to unite with that body. As he was a non-immersionist, he was asked if he would submit to immersion in order to further such a union. In reply he said: “I would submit to anything in order to keep the peace!” FREDERICK BLISS.