June 2 the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference closed for a day to give the delegates and visitors the opportunity of visiting the capital city. Of a part of that day we take the following report from the Washington Post of June 3; it will speak for itself:
“Taft Receives Adventists
“Assures Them That They Are Entitled to Religious Liberty
“More than 400 delegates of the Seventh-day Adventists’ conference, now in session at Takoma Park, were received by President Taft yesterday afternoon in the east room of the White House. The President shook hands with each one of the company. Elder G. A. Irwin, vice-president of the conference, introduced the delegation and presented to the President resolutions passed by the conference. He said:
“As vice-president of the North American division of the Seventh-day Adventists, I am pleased to present to you, Mr. President, an address that has been prepared by our people, embodying their sentiments and their expressions of sympathy in your work.”
“The President replied as follows:
“Doctor, I am very glad to meet you and your coreligionists. I am glad to meet them here and to welcome them to Washington. I have no doubt that your conference has led to satisfactory results, that your aims are high, and that you are entitled, like all the rest of us, to worship God in the way that seems best to your conscience, and that under our Constitution everybody figures on an equality in that regard.”
