Progress in New South Wales
The following extract is taken from the recent address of the president of the New South Wales Conference:— “This important work [the religious liberty work] has been too long neglected. The time has come when earnest, intelligent efforts should be made to redeem the time, and as the union conference is putting an able man into the field in the interest of this work, our local conference should make every effort possible to assist such laborers in placing the principles of religious liberty before the people in a proper light, thus helping them to stand upon the right side of this great question, when these important issues are pressed upon them. I trust these delegates will not overlook this line of work, but will lay plans to help it forward as the importance of the question may demand.” A further report of the New South Wales Conference says: “The much neglected phase of our message, ‘religious liberty,’ occupied the major part of Thursday’s proceedings, and several important resolutions were adopted. Pastor W. A. Hennig, who was recently appointed secretary of the union conference Religious Liberty Department, was present, and earnestly appealed for greater vigilance on the part of every Seventh-day Adventist regarding this phase of the message. The burden of the committee’s report was the creation of a department within this State for active service in the dissemination of suitable literature to our own and the outside people generally, and to maintain a live interest in the important question. The third Sabbath in each quarter was voted to be set apart to a study of religious liberty principles.”