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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1909

Catholics Notice “Liberty”

By W. A. C.

THE Catholic Columbian of August 13, published at Columbus, Ohio, contains an editorial notice of the last number of Liberty. It thinks that “practically every article in this quarterly contains a venomous attack on the Catholic Church,” and says that “the sole object of the publication seems to be to arouse suspicion in the minds of non-Catholics.” In an article in this number “dated from Rome,” it says the writer “attacks all denominations that seek to have Sunday laws enforced.” This last doubtless explains how it understands that practically every article in the magazine contains “a venomous attack on the Catholic Church;” for, with only two or three exceptions, none of the articles in it mention the Catholic Church.

Nearly all the articles in Liberty do, however, attack the principle of a union of church and state, particularly as manifested in Sunday enforcement; and, as the Catholic Church stands for both a union of church and state and Sunday enforcement, it naturally in any case of this kind considers itself “attacked.”

We are sorry that this church is not the only one which stands for these things, and thus lays itself open to such attacks. But both the gospel and the gospel idea of civil government are opposed to these things; and, as Liberty believes in both the gospel and good government, it, too, must oppose them.

W. A. C.