Earlier text: Sunday Laws in the District of Columbia

Olsen’s Visit to England and Washington

IN a letter just received from Elder O. A. Olsen, president of the Australasian Union Conference, dated December 22, he states that he has arranged to accompany his wife on a visit to England, where their two sons are engaged in the work. They expect to reach England about the first of April. Brother Olsen will spend a few days there, then come on to Washington to meet the brethren in council about the middle of April. After a brief visit in the States he will return to his field by way of the Pacific.

Garrison’s Protest Against Sunday Laws

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON'S protest against Sunday laws, quoted in our Editorial department, will be read with pleasure and profit by our people. It is a valuable document, and should be preserved. The arguments could never be successfully controverted by his opponents. Nevertheless, his prediction regarding the repeal of all such laws then on the statute-books of the States will never be fulfilled. He based his prediction upon the known worth of his cause, and upon his belief that the majority would choose the truth and the right. The worth of his cause could not be gainsaid, but the human factor was the broken reed. The majority never have been willing to sacrifice self-interest in behalf of principle, and the Word contains no intimation that the last generation would be better in this respect than those that preceded it.

Offering for Religious Liberty Work

THE first Sabbath following the date of this paper falls on February 1. That is the day set apart by the General Conference for the creation of a fund with which to carry on our religious liberty work through the year. The year before us will be filled with some of the most important developments ever encountered in the history of our work. There never was such a general stir throughout the nation and the world over the matter of religious legislation. The matter of a Sunday law for the District of Columbia (which will be in effect a national law) is now hanging in the balances, and the advocates of Sunday laws throughout the country are watching the developments here with keen interest. With the influence of such a law behind them, they expect to be able to accomplish much more in the interests of Sunday enforcement than ever before. The Religious Liberty department is doing all that it can to educate the people regarding these matters, and to hold back the rising tide of oppression. It must have financial support in order to carry on its work. We therefore hope that the offering will be a generous one. The program for that day will be found in the REVIEW of January 16, in the Christian Liberty department.

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