Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

Religious Liberty Notes

COMMENT of the Washington press on congressional prospects indicates that the Johnston Sunday bill is slated for early consideration by our national legislators. This will suggest to our people in every State and Territory the necessity of taking a vigorous hold of the petition work, if we expect success again in our opposition to this damaging legislation.

The Catholic Church beseeching liberty for conscience is a most astonishing thing, and is suggestive of the irony that seems sometimes, truly enough, to enter even into fate itself. Yet a late pastoral letter by the Bishop of Paris calls on the government in France to give the church the benefit of “one of the principles proclaimed by itself, namely, respect for liberty of conscience.” “One of the principles proclaimed by itself” is well put, for probably never in the history of that church was such a principle proclaimed by her. She seems very glad, however, that her present powerful adversary has been so justly disposed, and gladly avails herself of the leniency involved in such justness.