Will Methodists Grant Adventists Religious Liberty

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 24, 1907

Will Methodists Grant Adventists Religious Liberty

Because a Roman Catholic priest attempted to disturb a mission service for Italians which was being conducted by Methodists, and a Catholic paper spoke disparagingly of this missionary effort, the Christian Advocate (Methodist) made this statement:—

In the United States the Methodist Episcopal Church has the same legal right to open services in the Italian language and advertise them as in any other language or as any other ecclesiastical organization, and it has the same moral impulse to propagate its own views. The Roman Catholic Church does not hesitate to teach all its members its doctrines, and also to teach that the doctrines taught by the Methodist Episcopal Church which do not agree with those taught by the Roman Catholic Church are untrue. We never object to their holding them up as misleading, for we claim for our own church the right to declare that its fundamental doctrines are true, and that any doctrines held by the Catholic Church which contravene our doctrines are misleading.

This is sound religious liberty doctrine. Now will the Methodists grant the same privilege to Seventh-day Adventists as they claim for themselves?