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The Fourth Number of Liberty for 1907

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 12, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 50.

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The Fourth Number of Liberty for 1907

This number of Liberty presents in a few plain paragraphs the platform upon which Liberty stands,—Christian in belief and practise, but opposing religious legislation, maintaining that men should be left free to accept or to reject any religious belief, and that they should be protected by the civil law in their choice or refusal of any form of religion, in so far as they regard the equal rights of others.
In sixteen strong editorials it is clearly proved that the claim that religious legislation will result in persecution, is not a mere theory. The present attitude of the ministry, the ever-recurring school matter, the demand for Sunday legislation, strange experiments in legislation, dangerous precedents, examples of iniquitous legislation, making and enforcing Sabbath laws, the inconsistency of enforced religious observances, and the present tendency to make Christ’s kingdom of this world, are subverting the principles of good government and destroying genuine religious experience.

General Articles

The general articles in this number of Liberty treat upon the following interesting and important questions:—
“ROME AND THE CONSTITUTION”—The marvelous change fifteen years have made in the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church toward the government of the United States.
“CONSCIENCE FREE”—Can not be coerced. “You can forge a crowbar on an anvil, but you can not hammer out a conscience.”
“THE TRIUMPH OF ROME”—In her co-operation with Protestants in the exalting of Sunday, she is seeking to regain her lost supremacy.
“THREATENING SHADOWS”—The lamblike nature of this nation to be changed into that of the dragon,—historical and Scriptural evidence given.
“THE SPHERE OF LAW”—The object of civil law is to regulate civil conduct, but the civil law that modifies, changes, or interferes with the law of God transcends the powers conferred, and is not respected by the court of heaven.
“WHAT WERE THE PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH ROGER WILLIAMS WAS BANISHED?”—Those upon which the American republic was founded, that the power of the civil magistrate extends only to civil things, and that no man can be held responsible to his fellow men for his religious beliefs.
“THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SUNDAY REST AT THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION”—A report of this congress, revealing the present attitude of the principal promoters of religious legislation.
“THE PAPAL THEORY OF GOVERNMENT”—A union of church and state, with the church as the superior, and commanding obedience from the state as the inferior.
“PERSONAL RIGHTS”—Does a religious law abridge these rights?
“THE PEACE CONFERENCE”—Portraying the significant and anomalous signs of the times in the general cry of peace amid almost universal preparation for war.
“THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SABBATH”—The Sabbath of the fourth commandment,—its purpose; the enforcing of its observance being the transgression of the moral law of which it is a part.
“RELIGIOUS LIBERTY”—The liberty which is heaven-born,—vouchsafed as an inalienable right to all intelligences in heaven and on earth, having for its foundation the law of self-denying love; for its Author, the God of liberty; for its demonstration, the life of Christ.
“WHY RELIGION WAS DISESTABLISHED IN VIRGINIA”—An interesting sketch of American history in which is revealed the evils of a union of church and state, and the blessing of religious liberty.
“THE SABBATH IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND”—Giving the truth about Samuel Peters’ “blue-laws.”
“A NEW YORK JURIST ON RELIGIOUS LEGISLATION”—Extracts from an address by ex-Judge Charles R. Pratt before the New York State Sabbath Association at Elmira, N. Y.; subject, “Sunday Laws and Their Enforcement.”
“THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT”—Blessings for faithful adherence to the law of Christ. Jesus claims the most loyal devotion, even to the endurance of all manner of evil. He is king, his law above all laws.
“TEACHING ONLY WHAT GOD HAS COMMANDED”—Men are to take the law of God just as they find it. They have no right to urge as a matter of universal obligation what God has left as a matter to be decided by every man’s conscience.
“TEMPERANCE”—Sunday Closing of the Saloon; The Cause of the Moral Paralysis upon Society; Lincoln’s Temperance Pledge; England’s Drink Bill; Liquor Drinking in the United States.
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