Denying His Responsibility

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 4, 1907

Denying His Responsibility

A SISTER, writing from Ontario, June 17, says:— “Several of the Methodist Conferences have had their sessions recently. Rev. T. Albert Moore has been attending them, and lecturing at each place on ‘Sabbath Observance.’ He met with a little opposition at the Bay of Quinte Conference, although the general sentiment of all the conferences so far reported, seems to be enthusiasm for Sunday observance. Mr. Moore’s tactics remind us of Catholic times when the church induced the government to pass laws that would enable them to persecute; then, when pressed for an excuse for their cruel conduct, they would claim to be only enforcing the ‘law of the land.’ Mr. Moore says he was not responsible for the law; that ‘Parliament was responsible.’ Of course Parliament passed the law, but Mr. Moore was one of the men who worked the hardest to get it passed.

“The Rational Sunday League movement is spreading. The Toronto League announces that they are receiving so many letters that they will have to have additional clerical help to attend to the correspondence. A strong league has been organized in Ottawa.” W. A. C.