Religious Liberty Notes by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 25, 1907

Religious Liberty Notes

By W. A. C.

THE Northern Union Reaper says: “We understand that the new Lord’s Day Act is made obsolete in British Columbia by the refusal of the attorney-general to give his consent for any prosecutions. The same act is practically a dead letter so far in the province of Manitoba.”

The Young People’s Society at Clearfield, Pa., has been at work. Mrs. R. H. Wiper writes as follows: “We ordered ten thousand copies of a special number of Liberty, which we hope to sell within the next two months, with God’s help.” This same Society has already sold ten thousand copies of Liberty during the past four months.

In a convention of the Missouri Retail Merchants’ Association, just held at Sedalia, Mo., at which nearly three hundred delegates were in attendance, a resolution was introduced by the Master Butchers’ Association requesting the members of the next general assembly to enact a law requiring all retailers in the State to keep their places of business closed on Sunday.

One of our aged but earnest conference religious liberty secretaries here in the East informs us that he has notified the officers of his conference that if they will give him a free hand throughout the State, he will “sow it with religious liberty literature, and raise all the money necessary to pay for it.” A president of one of the Western union conferences writes us: “We are going to try to reach every man in the union conference with some of our literature on religious liberty.” This is the kind of work that needs to be done everywhere.

In his message to the legislature July 9, Governor Comer, of Alabama, complained about the holding up of the State railroad laws by injunction in the federal court, and indorsed the observance of Sunday in the following words, as reported in the New York Times of July 10: “If we could but rest the machinery of our State for one day in the week, this rest given to the great army of railroad employees would, I have no doubt, prevent many a destructive collision and loss of life. You need not put this in operation at once, but put it in process of accomplishment.”

At the Southern New England Conference, held in connection with the camp-meeting at New London, Conn., June 6-16, the following recommendations were adopted: “We earnestly recommend that all our people do their utmost to enlighten the citizens of their localities on the principles of religious liberty, and we suggest as an excellent means for doing this a wide circulation of the Liberty magazine, and the tracts published by the Religious Liberty Bureau. We suggest that when advisable a local religious liberty secretary be appointed, who shall keep in touch with the conference religious liberty secretary.” W. A. C.