The King's Business by C. M. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 11, 1914

The King's Business

By C. M. S.

For many years we have seen and recorded scattered evidences of the fact that the forces of oppression which are finally to pit themselves against the keepers of God's law were really being gathered under definite leadership, and that a program was being mapped out for their operation. Today we see these evidences on every hand, the leadership more marked, the program more definite, and the numbers of these forces increased by the millions.

The national government has, through divine providence, refused hitherto to yield to the clamorings and insistent demands of these elements for religious legislation. Now, however, the organizations demanding these laws have become so numerous, counting their adherents by the millions, and threatening to use their political power against legislators who refuse to pass the laws they demand, that Congressmen are beginning to feel that their political lives hang upon their attitude toward these demands for religious legislation. We have entered upon what is really a new phase of the situation. Religion, in the name of the Federal Council of the Churches, in the name of individual denominations, in the name of W. C. T. U.'s, Y. W. C. T. U.'s, Y. M. C. A.'s, Y. W. C. A.'s, the Christian Endeavor Societies, and other like organizations, the National Reform Association, the International Reform Bureau, and the Lord's Day Alliance, is bringing the strongest possible pressure to bear upon legislators in the effort to secure the religious legislation they demand. How long will legislators hold out against the demands of organized religion, when they feel that their political future is at stake?

Not all Christians are in that movement. Very few of those who are realize what the movement means, and none of them believe that the result will be what the Word of God plainly tells us that it will be. In view of this fact, what is our duty as individual Seventh-day Adventists? We ought to put religious liberty literature into the hands of every professed Christian in the country. Have you told your next-door neighbors what these things mean? Have you given them a copy of the current issue of the magazine Liberty? In that issue the warning against the demands and against the course of these organizations is faithfully given. It is one of the most important numbers of that journal that has ever been issued. The truth in reference to these matters is so plainly and forcefully told therein that he who reads that number can never say he has not been warned. Send for a supply of the current number of Liberty to distribute among your friends and neighbors. This is the King's business, and the King's business demands haste. On page 2 of this number of the REVIEW will be found prices and terms, and a cut of the front and the back cover of the journal. Specify the Pilgrim Fathers number. C. M. S.