Religious Liberty Notes by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 1, 1907

Religious Liberty Notes

By W. A. C.

FIFTY-FIVE thousand copies of the last number of Liberty have been printed.

The Pacific Press has just ordered ten thousand copies of each of the Religious Liberty Leaflets, or one hundred and twenty thousand in all.

The president of the Vermont Conference sends in an order for twenty-five copies of the last number of Liberty, saying, “I think the number a grand one.”

The other day an order was received from Oklahoma for five thousand copies of each of the Religious Liberty Leaflets. The publishers are inclined to think this a mistake,—that five hundred of each was intended.

Twenty thousand copies of the last number of Liberty, the Christian Endeavor number, besides many thousands of the Religious Liberty Leaflets, were sent to Seattle, Wash., for free distribution in connection with the recent Christian Endeavor convention held at that place.

Following an address at the Sabbath-school and young people’s convention, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, Sunday night, July 14, by Elder K. C. Russell, copies of the last number of Liberty and a complimentary set of the Religious Liberty Leaflets were presented to all present. The literature was eagerly received.

Religion, to amount to anything, must be individual and personal. Reforms, to be successful, must begin at home. Speaking at the annual Christian Endeavor convention, recently held at Seattle, Wash., Rev. Alexander Francis, pastor of the British-American church of St. Petersburg, Russia, said: “Nothing is more characteristic of the English and Americans than the desire to reform others than themselves.”

It is stated that a movement has been set on foot among the Jews of the State of New York to petition President Roosevelt and Secretary Root to have the American representatives at The Hague Peace Conference withdrawn unless Russia and Rumania agree to certain regulations regarding their treatment of the Jews within their borders. An appeal has also been made to Cardinal Gibbons to lend his influence to the movement. They wish the Russian government to promise that when it emerges from its present conditions, “Jews, Catholics, and Mohammedans shall be equal citizens before the law.”

W. A. C.