A Religious Liberty Convention by K. C. R.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 9, 1909

A Religious Liberty Convention

By K. C. R.

A CONVENTION of the religious liberty secretaries of the Atlantic Union Conference was held at South Lancaster, Mass., for a few days preceding the regular session of the Atlantic Union Conference, and the work of the convention also constituted a part of the program for the first few days of the conference. Among the different topics upon which papers were written and addresses given were the following: “The Fundamental Principles of Religious Liberty;” “A Century’s Retrospect of the Religious Liberty Work;” “Sunday Legislation and the Laboring Man;” “Sunday Closing and the Saloon;” “The Law of Expediency as Applied to the Religious Liberty Work;” “The Work with the Public Press.” In addition to the papers that were presented, the question box proved to be a very interesting and profitable feature of the convention. Two evening lectures were delivered by the writer on the subject of religious liberty, one of which was a stereopticon lecture.

The conference unanimously voted to elect a union conference religious liberty secretary, who will devote his entire time to that line of work. It was also voted to inaugurate a vigorous campaign in the interests of the religious liberty work throughout the entire union conference,—the holding of religious liberty institutes, the circulation of our religious liberty literature, and the placing of the new revised edition of “American State Papers” in the hands of all State legislators.

We believe that this convention will prove a great blessing to the religious liberty work in this union conference. There certainly is no part of the United States where there is greater activity displayed on the part of the champions of Sunday legislation than in the territory covered by the Atlantic Union Conference. K. C. R.