THE Daily Enterprise, of Burlington, N. J., bearing date of February 26, contains a synopsis of an interesting sermon on religious liberty by Elder A. R. Bell. A most enthusiastic appeal to church elders and leaders in the interests of the Religious Liberty Department was made by Elder S. D. Hartwell, religious liberty secretary of the West Michigan Conference. The following significant statement regarding the Roman Catholic activity in Washington for 1906 was gleaned from the public press: “Roman Catholics are to undertake during 1906 the erection of a palace for the papal delegate at Washington, and it is possible that some steps will be taken toward making Washington a see city. A successor to the late Archbishop Chappelle, of New Orleans, is to be chosen, and so is a coadjutor to the archbishop of Boston.” A most interesting discussion on Sunday closing has been carried on between Brother O. B. Price and one C. D. Reeder, through the columns of the Montezuma Record, of Park County, Indiana. Brother Price had a five-column article in the issue of that paper bearing date of Feb. 23, 1906. It is a source of encouragement to see our brethren improving the opportunity of placing the truth before the people through the medium of the public press. Let others go and do likewise. The following announcement of our new religious liberty organ appeared in the Evening Star, of Washington, D. C., bearing date of Feb. 28, 1906: “In harmony with the request of the Religious Liberty Bureau, which is concurred in by other members of the General Conference Committee, the Review and Herald Publishing Association will shortly begin the publication of a quarterly magazine which will be devoted to the promulgation of the principles of religious liberty. In addition to the discussion of the principles involved, the magazine will also contain reports, notes, and comments upon the current history of the rights of conscience. The new magazine will be called Liberty. The editorial staff will be as follows: L. A. Smith, editor; W. A. Colcord and W. W. Prescott, associate editors.” The Daily Times Union and Citizen, of Jacksonville, Fla., bearing date of Jan. 6, 1906, evidently has taken exception to something which has been said regarding the “Peninsular State,” judging from the ironical statements made by the editor in concluding an editorial entitled “Is This a Christian People?” He says: “We are told on authority of Christian journals and speakers that we are very wicked, that society is wrong, that neglect of Christian law is common. Is this so in a country governed by Christians? We are told that thousands in the great cities are ‘worse heathens’ than can be found in any heathen land. Can this be so? Is it possible? This is the richest of all possible countries of the past or present; but fifty thousand children in New York could not be provided with school facilities, and many could not get breakfast before going to school. Of course this can not be true. Several cathedrals are being built, each to cost several millions, the cost to come out of congregations, among whom are people in debasing ignorance — many of them hungry — some who declare they are ‘worse than slaves.’ Of course this can not be true in whole or part. Lastly, in a land governed by this Christian majority, we have a government devoting its chief energies to the building up of a military establishment, while Christianity proclaims peace and good will; it can not be true that Christians deliberately propose to wage war except in defense. Nor can it be true that this government of, by, and for Christians, would sail out across the ocean to make war on those who have never injured it.” K. C. RUSSELL.