p. 30 | Religious Liberty Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 5, 1907

Religious Liberty Notes

The demand for the Religious Liberty Leaflets has been so great of late that in addition to the stock on hand, another edition of 20,000 copies each of the leaflets is now being printed. This makes a total of 240,000 leaflets, or nearly 2,000,000 pages of this literature, published at one time.

A sister in Georgia writes that she is endeavoring to place Liberty and other religious liberty literature in the hands of many of the prominent lawyers of the State.

Mrs. Luella B. Priddy, of Markham, Ontario, sends in the names and addresses of ten prominent editors, educators, and business men in Canada to whom she desires Liberty sent.

The president of the New York Conference, Elder F. H. DeVinney, writes as follows: “Just a word in appreciation of Liberty. Every number seems about as good as can be, but the next one is better.”

Rev. E. P. Powell, Unitarian, as reported in the Literary Digest of August 17, commenting on Sunday legislation, says: “It simply is impossible to create a one-day morality. What is right on Saturday is right on Sunday. When religious people give up this whole impossibility, and insist that a wicked thing shall not be done on any day, and a right thing shall be done every day, they have a basis for law and order that can be enforced. If whisky peddling is a crime on Sunday, it is on Monday.” The enactment of Sunday laws, he says, amounts merely to “putting the handcuffs on for one day, and then taking them off for six.” So far as these laws affect the liquor traffic, they are, he avers, simply “a determination to let saloons drive their unwholesome trade six days, but the seventh is a sop to the Lord.”