The Petition Campaign by H. W. Reed

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

The Petition Campaign

By H. W. Reed

We hope that all our people are heartily engaged in a petition campaign against the Johnston Sunday bill now pending in Congress. This work should be carried forward intelligently and enthusiastically. Many should now be interviewed and urged to sign the petition against this bill. A mighty stir should be made throughout the entire State over this question. We should cause an avalanche of well-written letters, together with thousands of petitions, to roll in upon the next Congress. The amount of good that can thus be accomplished is incalculable, and eternity alone must reveal it. To some of our national lawmakers this descent of letters and petitions will come with an irresistible force, and they will be strengthened to oppose the Sunday bill.

This petition campaign ought to be a means of educating the people of Wisconsin in regard to the principles of religious liberty, its blessings, and also to show them the evils of religious legislation. Every Seventh-day Adventist should be a religious liberty advocate. Every conference laborer should take time to teach the people the true principles of religious liberty, both by pen and by voice. As this is a live question, we should all be electrified, or charged, with it, so that all who come in contact with us will feel a shock.—H. W. Reed, in the Wisconsin Reporter.