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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 7, 1902

NEW YORK CITY.

By Editor

Dear brethren in the ministry: We know that you are deeply interested in the cause of religious liberty—the promulgation of the principles of which makes necessary the existence of The Sentinel of Christian Liberty. But we find that many are not enrolled as subscribers.

Just now is the time you should read regularly each issue of The Sentinel. Why?—Because now, as never before in the history of this country, the Sunday closing movement is being agitated. Here in New York City, it is the talk of every one. The great metropolitan dailies are devoting whole columns to the discussion of the subject. All are waiting with great interest and concern to see what will be the attitude of the “reform” administration which came into power Jan. 1, 1902.

W. T. Jerome, District Attorney elect, has declared that he will enforce every law upon the statute books. If he does, what an era of Sunday closing will be ushered in! What an example this will be for every city and village official all over the land! The friends of Sunday closing everywhere will not be slow to point to New York City, and urge the strict enforcement of the Sunday laws upon their statute books. Thus religious freedom may be restricted, and our own people may be called upon to suffer persecution.

Several years ago, when the advocates of no Sunday opening and no Sunday work were so active in this country, and came so near being successful in their designs, The Sentinel did a grand and noble work in the defeating of their schemes. Even now The Sentinel stands ready to do as large a work. We have able writers to defend right principles,—men who have been through the thick of the fight, and know how to meet the arguments of the enemy; far-seeing men who can detect the first working of these iniquitous plans; Christian men; men who will treat this great subject from the correct standpoint—the liberty in Christ Jesus.

Added to the fact that The Sentinel is so fortunate as to have such contributors, it is published in a form which will recommend itself to the public. Thinking that perhaps you may not have had the

privilege of seeing the new Sentinel, we mail you a copy of the December issue.

The January Sentinel will be full to overflowing with good things from such writers as A. T. Jones, A. G. Daniells, M. C. Wilcox, W. N. Glenn, and others. Besides this, it will contain a review of the recent article of Senator Hoar, President of the New England Sabbath Protective League, on “The Civic Basis of Sunday Laws.”

We are doing our best to make The Sentinel just what the Lord would have it to be,—a journal which shall present the true principles of gospel liberty, and which shall win men to these principles by the logic of truth. In this effort we trust that we may have your support and co-operation, first by sending us your own subscription, if you are not already a subscriber, and then by using your influence in favor of The Sentinel wherever you may be. Tell the people of the great cloud now forming, and of the storm which may break at any moment; tell them of the work The Sentinel is doing, and how, by being widely circulated in the little remnant of time which remains, it may help so to educate some that their influence will be on the side of true liberty. Tell them that the price is but one dollar a year for single subscriptions, or in clubs of five or more, 70 cents a copy, per year. Orders may be sent through the State tract societies at the same rate.

Trusting that we may hear from you soon with your subscription, and that we may have your hearty support, we remain,

Sincerely yours,

SENTINEL OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY.