Jewish Opposition to Sunday Legislation
By Editor
THREE long columns of space in a recent issue of the Chicago Israelite, a Jewish paper, are occupied with a protest against the passage of one of the Sunday bills now before Congress. Reference is made to the work of the Religious Liberty Bureau, and the following comment is made upon it:— They are right in their protest, and every lover of his country should come to the help of the officers and members of the Religious Liberty Bureau, and fight against the passing of this bill. Let the country once lend itself to any such legislation, and we shall soon see how these fanatics will get to work and ask for legislation that will result in privileged laws of much more wide-reaching import touching their distinctive religion. The article further declares that “the Central Conference of American Rabbis should take up this matter,” and that the committee of that body on church and state “should put itself in correspondence with the officers of the Religious Liberty Bureau. It should work conjointly with the Seventh-day Adventists.” It is encouraging to know that the work of the Religious Liberty Bureau is thus recognized, and we are sure that its officers will be ready to co-operate with those who believe that this religious legislation is “a menace to the future good of the country.”