Liberty and Publishing Progress by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 19, 1914

Liberty and Publishing Progress

By Editor

The current issue of the magazine Liberty (first quarter of 1914) contains matter of deep interest to every Seventh-day Adventist. A detailed report is given of the trial of Brother J. S. Rooker, of Tennessee, who was recently indicted for Sunday labor. This article will help you to appreciate more fully the tense situation which exists regarding Sunday legislation. The temperance department contains an article by S. B. Horton on "Federal Prohibition Legislation," and we also find an interesting double-column cut of the three thousand temperance volunteers who marched to the national Capitol and presented to Congress a petition favoring a national prohibition amendment to the Constitution. Instructive, timely articles are also found from Secretary of State William J. Bryan and from a number of writers prominent in our own denomination, including L. A. Smith, W. F. Martin, C. P. Bollman, and W. M. Healey.

WE are glad to note the encouraging showing made by the International Publishing Association, of College View, Nebr., which recently held its annual meeting. This association publishes and handles our publications in this country in the German, Danish-Norwegian, Swedish, and other languages. During 1913 this house sold over $34,000 worth of publications in the various tongues, and the financial statement shows a gain of $631 in the operation. This is a splendid record of missionary publishing work.