The Official Organ of the Religious Liberty Bureau

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 20, 1906

The Official Organ of the Religious Liberty Bureau

Liberty

The Official Organ of the Religious Liberty Bureau

The third number of Liberty, issued November 20, will be found to contain matter that will clearly reveal the meaning of religious legislation. Note the following outline of its contents: Survey of the Field—Portraying the present attitude of the leading nations upon the principles of religious liberty; Our Position—A brief statement of the position the Religious Liberty Bureau maintains upon the union of church and state; Why We Oppose Sunday Legislation—Not because Sabbath rest is not needed, but because the enforcement of it is outside the legitimate field of the civil government; The State Personality Doctrine—The assertions of the Christian Statesman contrasted with the conclusive arguments of Lord Macaulay on state personality; A Dangerous Measure—The proposed Sunday law for the District of Columbia, its object to make Sunday the established sabbath of the nation; Temperance and Liberty—Temperance regulations a cover to hide the promotion of religious tenets by legal enactments; How National Reformers Labor to Secure Sunday Legislation—Their methods, zeal, and persistency; A Practical Union of Church and State—Illustrated by the political domination of the Mormon Church in Utah; Christian Liberty—Citing instances of demonstrated Christian liberty, and contrasting its fruit with that of compulsory enactments—the two defined by examples in history; Reaping the Fruit of Her Own Sowing—The Catholic Church in France suffering the results of her own example in teaching the principles of union of church and state; Washington the Great Lobby-Camp of the World—The Reform Bureau boasts of being the first "Christian Lobby" established in the national capital; A Unique Snake Story—Sunday shooting interpreted to be worse than snake-biting; Religious Equality—Declared to be the fundamental principle of British liberty; The American Federation of Catholic Societies—An organization to direct and mobilize the efforts of the Catholics of America; Human Law Versus Divine Law—Civil government more often favorable to heterodoxy than orthodoxy; The Purpose of the Inter-Church Federation—The securing of the influence and power of the state in matters of religion; Christ's Kingdom Not of this World—But the religious world is attempting to establish it as an earthly temporal kingdom; Religious Liberty Defended—Report of the New York Sabbath Association; News Notes—On the various phases of the Sunday law movement.

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