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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 29, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 13.

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Note and Comment

Some unpleasant truth is told by Dr. Andrew D. White in these words:—
Simply as a matter of fact, the United States is, among all civilized nations of the world, the country in which the crime of murder is most frequently committed and least frequently punished. Our record is now larger than any other country in the world.
This is an unenviable distinction, and indicates a condition which is a peril to the republic. And this condition will not be improved by continuing to preach that the law of God has been abolished. No-law teaching encourages lawlessness.
AMONG the resolutions adopted at a recent meeting of the Secular League of this city are the following:—
That we deplore the easy acquiescence of members of Congress in the demand of the “Christian Lobby,” leading to the offering of numerous bills which assume the actual union of church and state; that several examples of this perilous facility, are bills offered at this session of Congress: One for the increase of chaplains in the army and navy; one for building chapels at forts, and one (S. 1725), offered by Senator Taliaferro of Florida, for the donation of a site to the Baptist church, of Rock Sink, Fla., and an appropriation of money to build a church on the site—this last being in flagrant violation of a statute of the United States.
That such bills indicate a lamentable indifference of politicians to religious legislation, and reveal the plan of the “Christian Lobby” to multiply entering wedges to prepare the way for the perfect union of the church and state.
That it is the duty of every member of Congress to vote down these bills, and to prevent religious legislation in any form whatever.
If all those who claim to believe the gospel of Christ were as sound in their views on religious liberty as these secularists, there would be no need for secularists to protest against the unchristian demand of professed Christians for religious legislation.