Christian Liberty

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 31, 1906

Christian Liberty

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Religious Liberty Notes

ORDERS have been given by the Department of Public Safety of Scranton, Pa., "that the police must enforce the Sunday closing law."

An illustrated eight-page leaflet entitled "Christian Citizenship, True and False," by Dr. Willard W. Hills, the Colorado religious liberty secretary, has been published by the Colorado Conference. It is well written.

Captain J. L. Johnson and his wife, of the yacht "Sentinel," are to make a trip soon with their boat from New York City to Buffalo, N. Y., and will take with them a large supply of Liberty and other religious liberty matter to distribute along the route.

The president of the Indiana Conference, Elder W. J. Stone, writes: "Our work is prospering here in Indiana, and we are endeavoring to give all departments of the work their proper attention, and shall look constantly after the Religious Liberty Department."

At the recent biennial session of the Lake Union Conference held at Berrien Springs, Mich., Prof. J. G. Lamson, the religious liberty secretary of the East Michigan Conference, was elected to take charge of the religious liberty work in the Lake Union Conference.

Two men who were "engaged in painting a building" were arrested at Brooklyn, N. Y., on Sunday, April 29, and on the charge of "violating the Sunday law" were arraigned in the Lee Avenue police court before Magistrate Higginbotham, who "held them for examination."

It is announced from Grand Forks, S. D., that there will be no Sunday baseball games in that city during the coming season, a committee of citizens having undertaken to raise and to guarantee to the local team sufficient money to make up for the loss occasioned by the omission of Sunday games.

Elder S. B. Horton writes from New Orleans, La., as follows: "As contemplated a bill was recently introduced into the House amending a statute regulating the opening of barber shops in Louisiana on Sunday. I have reason to believe that opportunity and privilege will be given me to address the legislature."

The religious liberty work was discussed at the recent annual session of the Chesapeake Conference, and there was manifested a lively interest in this department of the Lord's work. This conference will supply each member of the Maryland and Delaware Legislatures with a yearly subscription to Liberty.

Rev. D. O. Osterhead, pastor of a Methodist Episcopal church at Ozone Park, Greater New York, writes to the New York Sun that he has "reported the matter of Sunday violations several times at police headquarters, Richmond Hill, but no notice is taken of it whatever," and he avers that "we must have some remedy — conditions can not remain as they are."