More Indictments by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 6, 1906

More Indictments

By Editor

IN view of the almost universal agitation over the enforcement of Sunday observance, our people should be circulating religious liberty literature now as never before. As an indication of the real animus of the movement, we give the following news item taken from The State, of November 24, published at Columbia, S. C.:—

SPARTANBURG, NOV. 23.— The grand jury in its presentment to-day recommended that the three Seventh-day Adventist ministers be prosecuted for violation of the Sunday law. It is claimed that the preachers, Revs. Nash, Ollie Johnson, and Sopher, attended to their worldly affairs on the Sabbath day in the neighborhood of Campobello, and the grand jury recommends that the solicitor take action against them for the alleged violations of the law.

The ministers are well known in Spartanburg, and the presentment of the grand jury caused no little comment.

The St. Paul Daily News presents the matter in the following way:—

The grand jury of Spartanburg County made a presentment Friday to Judge C. G. Dantzler and Solicitor Sease, urging them to prosecute every minister of the Seventh-day Adventist church on a charge of violating the Sabbath; also all members of that faith who keep Saturday and labor on Sunday.

There is no mistaking the spirit or purpose of the movers of this attack. The forces of the enemy are now setting themselves for their most powerful struggle against the progress of the truth of God and against the people who have given themselves to its promulgation. The time to work is now, that honest souls may be enlightened while we still have opportunity to enlighten them. There is probably no better matter to give to the people upon this particular theme than the magazine Liberty. Let it now be circulated everywhere.