American State Papers by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 25, 1909

“American State Papers”

By W. A. C.

The work of revising “American State Papers” is nearly completed, and the manuscript for the new, revised, and enlarged edition will soon be placed in the hands of the publishers.

The work has been divided into six parts, under the following heads: “The Colonial Period;” “The Federation Period;” “The National Period;” “Court Decisions;” “State Constitutions and Sunday Laws;” and “Operation of Sunday Laws;” besides an appendix containing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

This book will contain all the statements in the various State constitutions relating to religious rights and religious liberty, as well as the Sunday laws in every State, Territory, and possession of the United States, revised up to date. This section of the book will be of particular value and interest from now on as the agitation over Sunday enforcement rises all over the country. Besides this, the work will contain a vast amount of most valuable and interesting matter from colonial times down to the present time.

The various movements, measures, and matters of interest which have arisen since the rise of the National Reform movement in 1863, especially those from 1888, when the Blair Sunday-Rest bill was introduced into Congress, and onward, are all noted and treated in chronological order. A list is given of every Sunday bill that has been introduced into Congress since 1888. Such matters as the “National Reform Association,” the Blair “Sunday-Rest Bill,” the Blair “Educational Amendment,” the Breckinridge “District Sunday Bill,” the Supreme Court “Christian Nation Decision,” the “Sunday Closing of the World’s Fair,” the Johnston “District Sunday Bill,” the “Proposed Religious Amendment,” are all presented and dealt with at some length, as well as the Seventh-day Adventist and Seventh-day Baptist memorials to Congress of 1908.

We are sure that all our workers in the United States and a large number of our people generally will wish a copy of this book as soon as it is published. The first edition of the book, gotten out in 1890, was much appreciated; but the revised edition will be found still more complete, and will be of exceptional value as a work of reference and study. W. A. C.