Religious Liberty Notes by K. C. R.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 27, 1906

Religious Liberty Notes

By K. C. R.

A LIVELY crusade for the Sunday closing of saloons is now being carried on in Columbus, Ohio. The result reported for the first Sunday was eight arrests and the suspension of one policeman.

Elder H. W. Reed, the Wisconsin Religious Liberty Secretary, writing in the Wisconsin Reporter of November 28, says, concerning the Wisconsin State Federation Convention of Churches: “Strong resolutions were passed in favor of prayer and faithful work for the better observance of the holy sabbath [Sunday].”

Elder H. E. Giddings writes in the Southwestern Union Record, bearing date of Nov. 13, 1906, as follows concerning the efforts which our people are exerting in Oklahoma against the framing of any religious clause into the State constitution of Oklahoma: “In the convention the battle between truth and error bids fair to be a warm one. . . . The opposition is bitter and determined.”

The following item appeared in The Workers’ Bulletin of Des Moines, Iowa, bearing date of Dec. 4, 1906: “Mr. A. S. Urick, the State labor leader, predicts that farm products will soon be bearing the union label, while with this news comes the announcement that a pastors’ union in an Eastern State has become affiliated with the regular union forces of the city. Thus we can see that things are rapidly developing which will hasten the end of the conflict.”

The Binghamton (N. Y.) Press, bearing date of Nov. 19, 1906, describes the arrest of two men in that city, who were found working on Sunday: “A telephone message was received at police headquarters, saying that two men were plowing on Butternut Street. Policeman Hilligus leaped on his horse and rode to the scene, where he found the two men scraping ashes into the river. He asked them if they knew what day it was, and they replied that they did. He ordered them to discontinue their work and to appear in court to-day. They were present at nine o’clock this morning, and after a severe lecture on the part of Recorder Roberts they were allowed to go.” K. C. R.