p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 3. (1/21/1909)

Religious Liberty in America

By Editor

IN this number of the REVIEW is finished the series of articles on the Rise and Fall of Religious Liberty in America. While it can not be said that the fall is yet complete, the last articles of the series show the plans by which it is to be accomplished and the mobilizing of the forces that are to bring it about. The development of that disintegrating work is going on with great rapidity, and should serve in itself as an incentive to our people to set the principles of truth before the world while so large a measure of liberty to teach and to labor still remains. The issue of Liberty for the first quarter of 1909, now going to press, is filled with most important matter dealing with these issues, and should be in the hands of every Seventh-day Adventist, for his own instruction and for the enlightenment of his neighbors.

The Daily Bulletin

THE General Conference Committee has decided to publish The Daily Bulletin during the next session of the General Conference. Full reports of the proceedings will be given. The price will be fifty cents for the session, and subscriptions are solicited. All orders should be sent to the General Conference Office.

Religious Liberty Day

On page 17 of this issue will be found the program and reading for Religious Liberty day, February 6. It will be necessary for church officers to keep this date in mind, and allow nothing to interfere with a successful meeting on that day. It being the only day of the year on which a collection is taken for the religious liberty work, it is earnestly hoped that our people everywhere will contribute liberally for that fund.

The Ten-Cent-a-Week Plan

An isolated brother writes: “We read in the REVIEW of the ten-cent-a-week plan for raising extra funds, and since reading this, we have deposited our ten cents each week in a safe place, and intend to forward the money to you at the end of the year.” This prompt action on the part of every believer in this truth is all that is required in order to insure the success of this plan, and to more than double the amount available for mission work.

Baptism at Takoma Park

SABBATH, January 16, was a memorable day for the Takoma Park church. On that day twenty-two young persons and children, nearly all of whom were members of the Takoma Park Church-school, followed their Saviour in the solemn ordinance of baptism. The ordinance was administered by Prof. Frederick Griggs, following a brief, earnest exhortation by Elder A. G. Daniells. This occasion seemed like a foretaste of that time when “Elijah the prophet” would perform his last allotted work in turning “the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers,”—the closing work of the gospel.

Missionary Volunteer Tour

ELDER M. E. KERN, chairman of the Missionary Volunteer Department, left Washington the evening of January 12 for the purpose of attending the Young People's conventions and Missionary Volunteer councils scheduled on page 20 of this issue of the REVIEW. The itinerary includes thirteen of these gatherings in the North, West, and South, the last of which will close March 21, the meeting at Graysville, Tenn. A reference to the published schedule will show which of these gatherings are Young People's conventions and which are Missionary Volunteer councils. It is the desire of the leader of the young people's work that as many as possible of our young people in the vicinity of the various places of meeting, especially the officers of the societies within a reasonable distance of these places, shall be in attendance.