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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jan 24, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 4.

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THERE will be many thousands of professional men who will receive copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES containing reports and articles on the Federation of the Churches.
We do not ask you to read these articles as Seventh-day Adventists.
You may not agree with us regarding the doctrines of the Coming of Christ, seventh-day Sabbath, and Life only through Christ. Let these rest.
The Federation of the Churches is another matter. This will affect the religion of the whole country and the world. This Federation will affect the government of this country and the world. We appeal to you to study this Federation question with us.
The doctrines which have differentiated the American government from the governments of the world are involved in this question. Freedom of church and of state are involved. Religious liberty is involved. These are questions of paramount interest.
The SIGNS OF THE TIMES, according to the best of its ability, has stood for the religious liberty of the other man, who may be its bitterest opponent. He has the same rights as ourselves, and his rights should be conserved by law equally with ours.
Many of you have large influence in public life. You are patriotic Americans. You have rejoiced in the liberty and freedom your country gave you. You wish to preserve all these blessings and hand them down to your successors. But the very safety of these very blessings are involved in what this great Inter-Church Federation proposes to do.
What are the lessons which the working out of principles in history should teach us?
We therefore appeal to you as Christians (which some of you are), as Americans, as men, to study the question, learn what is in it, and act accordingly.