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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Oct 4, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 40.

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Religious Liberty Notes

By K. C. Russell

ELDER ISAAC MORRISON, of Sacramento, Cal., in writing to the Pacific Union Recorder, said, “The Sunday law has been agitated here lately by both editors and preachers.” This should be a signal of warning to the lovers of religious liberty in the State of California. This State possesses an excellent record in being free from the blight of a Sunday law.
The spirit that lies beneath Sunday legislation is revealed by a prominent Methodist minister in Franklin, Manitoba, as will be seen from an utterance of his which follows: “When people who call themselves Christians join with Jews, infidels, and outlaws to break down the sacredness of the Lord’s day, instituted and observed by Christ, the apostles, and all true followers ever since the day of the resurrection, it is high time they were either boycotted or crushed.”
The Omaha Bee (Omaha, Neb.) of Aug. 28, 1905, contains the following clear-cut statement as to what day the acting mayor of Omaha, Neb., believes is the Sabbath: “Acting Mayor Johnson insists that the law prohibiting the sale of liquor on the Sabbath day can not be construed to apply to sale on Sunday, because Saturday is the real Sabbath-day, in name as well as in fact. On this point Acting Mayor Johnson will be sustained by some of the most profound doctors of theology.”
Elder Geo. M. Brown, of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, writes regarding the opposition that has been directed against a brother in Mexico: “For two years the postmaster at a little town called Actlan, in the State of Puebla, has been a subscriber for El Mensajero, and has secured a goodly number of subscriptions. Of late he has been especially active, and as a result the Catholics have conspired against him, and have secured his removal from his position. Some of the best citizens of the town who are liberals appealed to the government in his behalf, but the Catholic archbishop in Mexico City used his influence against Mr. Ayuso, and he was discharged.” This is an illustration of the spirit of the papacy in a country where it is not regarded as necessary for her to exercise diplomacy.
The American Citizen states that the following are the exact words of President Roosevelt’s message to the pope, as given in cable dispatches to all the daily papers, and which remain without contradiction: “Tell the pope I send him my profound regards. I have tried to treat Protestants and Catholics alike, as my last appointments show. I will try to perpetuate this policy. This republic will stand for many a century. I expect there will be Catholic presidents, as well as Protestant. I trust that they all will treat each other as I have tried to do.” K. C. RUSSELL.