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The Annual Religious Liberty Offering

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 1, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 5.

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The Annual Religious Liberty Offering

The demand for a liberal religious liberty offering was never more imperative than for the one which will be received Sabbath, Feb. 24, 1912.
The great necessity for this offering arises from the fact that the mighty forces which threaten the most sacred rights of man,—the rights of conscience,—are rapidly multiplying on every hand.
The great display of numbers and power on the part of the Roman Catholic Church is producing an alarming effect even upon heretofore conservative Protestants. Note, for instance, the significance of a recent function held in Baltimore, Md., when the wheels of our national government well-nigh stopped to permit President, congressmen, and Supreme Court Justices to join in the laudation of Cardinal Gibbons upon the fiftieth anniversary of his elevation to the priesthood.
Moreover, the principles of religious liberty are being menaced by false Protestantism reflected in National Reform and other movements concerning which we are in duty bound to give proper warning. The success of these movements means in the last analysis a veritable union of church and state — a likeness to the Papacy.
Four religious measures are now pending in Congress. A campaign is being carried on in Ohio by the National Reform Association for the purpose of placing in the constitution certain articles bearing on religious and other questions for which the association stands; and a State-wide movement for securing a Sunday law is now on in California. In Mississippi and South Carolina three of our people are to be tried this month for doing quiet and inoffensive labor on Sunday.
The alarming situation which confronts us ought to be a most earnest appeal to every Seventh-day Adventist to make his annual offering on Sabbath, Feb. 24, 1912, the largest he has ever made.
On the Sabbath preceding February 24, the church leader should call special attention to this offering.