p. 20 | Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 7, 1910

Religious Liberty Notes

THE Arkansas Conference has just launched a campaign for putting the magazines Liberty and Protestant into the reading-rooms and libraries of the colleges of the State, as well as into the hands of leading, influential citizens. A lively interest in the effort is being manifested by our people all over the State.

Elder S. E. Wight recently sent this department a newspaper clipping of nearly a column of editorial from a leading paper of Illinois, warmly advocating the enforcement of Sunday as a day of rest by civil enactment. It is high time to supply all such editors with matter showing the evils of Sunday legislation.

Elder A. R. Bell, of York, Pa., religious liberty secretary of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, has been very successful in securing in a leading daily of York the publication of the famous “Sunday Mail Report.” We could wish that that splendid document might have similar publication in every journal in the country.

Elder A. J. Clark, our secretary of the New York Conference, writes: “The work here at the capital is still keeping us busy. A bill has just been introduced in the assembly to prohibit the Sunday opening of moving-picture shows. This, with the bill seeking to close grocery stores all day Sunday, will soon have a hearing; date not yet set.”

From one view-point it is not difficult to understand why there has been at least a delay in Congress over the Johnston Sunday bill. This view-point is across the long line of prayers ascending to God with reference to the matter. We shall be wise if we continue thus to entreat the great Head of the church that this piece of vicious legislation be utterly defeated.