Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 13, 1910

Religious Liberty Notes

In two recent numbers of the Southwestern Union Record we have noticed a very prominent “Religious Liberty” heading on the first page. This we have thought very proper.

The Wisconsin Reporter states that at the Bethel convention religious liberty received some attention, Elder W. H. Thurston considering it in connection with the subject of temperance.

The New York Independent of December 15 has this to say concerning the recent agitation at Freeport, N. Y., over the reading of the Bible in the public schools: “When will our people learn that religion is the business of the church, and that the church and not the state is responsible for religious instruction? If the church fails, so much the worse for the church.” Another editorial commends British jurists for at last doing away with the more than half-heathen superstition of “kissing the Book” as part of the form of a legal oath.

“The first edition of ninety thousand Pacific Union Conference series of religious liberty leaflets has been used, and our second edition of one hundred fifty thousand is now printed. These are being forwarded for use to the various points where institutes are to be held in the California Conference.”—Pacific Union Recorder. This tells its own strong story.