AN IMPORTANT PAMPHLET by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 14.

AN IMPORTANT PAMPHLET.

By Editor

THERE has this week been laid upon our table a modest looking little pamphlet of nearly 100 pages, bearing on its title-page, "The Union of Church and State in the United States. A Protest; by Alonzo T. Jones." It is a review of the United States Supreme Court Decision in Case No. 143, October term, 1891; The Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Plaintiffs in Error, vs. The United States [February 29, 1892], and also certain Acts of Congress for the closing of the World's Columbian Exposition on Sunday. Published as No. 53 of the Sentinel Library; price, 15 cents. Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., 43 Bond St., New York.

To be appreciated the pamphlet must be read, and candidly considered. The author goes back to the foundation of the republic, the rights of the people as regards religion, important utterances made at that time, and the crystallization of prevailing sentiment in the first Amendment to the Constitution. The Supreme Court decision is then brought under review and the evil and far-reaching results of that decision are shown. Then follows a sketch of Sunday legislation in connection with the World's Fair and by what means and methods it was secured, closing with an appeal and remonstrance. This pamphlet should be circulated by the million. Some of the evidences adduced in this pamphlet, the quotations from Presbyterian and Baptist protests against any such a recognition of religion as the decision of the Supreme Court gives, are many times worth the price of the pamphlet. Some of the memorials presented by the Presbyterians and Baptists in the good old days of Virginia, when this very question of Church and State was brewing, deserve to be written in letters of gold. An appendix gives the full text of the Supreme Court decision. Let every lover of liberty assist in the circulation of this little book.

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