p. 21 | Religious Liberty Notes by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 27, 1907

Religious Liberty Notes

By W. A. C.

A BROTHER writes from Brooklyn: “The Christian Endeavor number of Liberty is a grand idea, and I shall be glad to do my best to help it.”

Writing under date of May 20, Elder F. M. Wilcox says: “I have read with interest some of the tracts which have recently been gotten out by the Religious Liberty Department, and am glad that you are getting out an excellent line of literature in these ways.”

Referring to the last number of Liberty, Señor E. F. Forga, who for some years past has been carrying on a religious liberty campaign in Peru, and who recently embraced the truth in England, says, “No. 2, Vol. 2, of Liberty is very interesting,” and he sends us a four years’ subscription to the magazine as a token of his appreciation of it. He is now in California, correcting Spanish translations of our literature, and studying to become better acquainted with present truth.

The city council of Thomasville, Ga., has been enacting some laws, new and blue, for the residents of that city; and the citizens are reported to be busily discussing the unusual restrictions to which they must in future submit. The new ordinance was introduced by Alderman C. P. Hansell, who is also judge of the city court and elder in the Presbyterian church. This ordinance provides that no place of business shall keep open on Sunday except drug-stores for the sale of medicine. One of its unusual provisions is that no firm shall deliver ice “on the Sabbath day.”

The annual convention of the Christian Endeavor Society is to be held at Seattle, Wash., July 10-15. It is estimated that about twenty thousand people will be in attendance at the meetings of this session. From the published program of the convention we see that the question of “Christian Citizenship” is to be discussed on the second day of the convention. July 12, at 8:30 P. M., the vice-president of the United States, Mr. Fairbanks, is to speak on “Our Country.” One of the leading topics to be discussed July 13 is, “The Laboring Man and the Church: How to Bring Them Together.” Rev. Hugh G. Walker, D. D., pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian church of Los Angeles, Cal., speaks on the same day on the subject of “The Enforcement of Law;” and Hon. George Nicholls, a member of the English Parliament, is to speak on “A Nation’s Greatest Need.” Rev. H. G. McMillan, D. D., pastor of the Second United Presbyterian church of Allegheny, Pa., a prominent National Reformer, is advertised to speak Sunday evening, July 14, on “The Sabbath for Man.” All these subjects will doubtless bear more or less directly upon the question of religious legislation and Sunday enforcement. W. A. C.