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California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Mar 18, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 19.

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Politics and Religion.

By James White

A VERY unusual circumstance, for this age, has lately transpired. A member of the North Carolina Legislature was expelled from that body because he denied the existence of God. The charge was based on the publication of a pamphlet, which several members characterized as blasphemous and indecent. If blasphemy and indecency were everywhere made tests of ineligibility to legislative honors, we fear some of these bodies would lack a quorum. We had no idea that such a vote would carry in any State in the Union. The feeling was strong against him, and the vote decided. J. H. W.