T Tangier Island Again HE readers of LIBERTY will readily recall the shooting of Roland Parks last spring, on Tangier Island, Va., by Constable Charles C. Connorton. Stripped of all technicalities, the facts are that young Parks was shot and severely wounded for refusing either to go to church or to hide himself inside his father's house during the hours of religious service on Sunday, as required by a local ordinance enacted for the purpose of securing better attendance at church. Connorton was found guilty of unjustifiable assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to serve a year in the penitentiary. An appeal was taken to the supreme court, but it affirmed the sentence. An effort was then made to secure a pardon from the governor. MOUTH OF THE POTOMAC R. JAMES R. for three specific purposes, as follows: $500,000 for a headquarters building in Pittsburgh, $500,000 as a literature fund. and $100,000 "to build up the associa tion's magazine," the Christian States man. In defining the principles of the National Reform Association, Dr. R. H. Martin declared that its "program will bring the nation to accept the will of 55238 TANGIER CHESAPEAKE BAY NORFOLK PORTSMOUTHO OF VIRGINIA Map Showing Tangier Island Christ in all that it does. A great campaign of edu cation," he continued, "will bring the majority to the point where they will accept the ideals of Christ. It can then be written down in the law of the land and a national confession of faith made. This nation will then humbly bow before Jesus Christ and place the crown of its own sovereignty at His feet." RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AMMUNITION! Facts, Arguments, and Inspiration for the Campaign AMERICAN STATE PAPERS By WILLIAM ADDISON BLAKELY, of the Chicago Bar New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition. Rare and Valuable Documents on Religious Legislation. CONTAINS WHAT EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN SHOULD KNOW The Religious Laws of Colonial Times The Measures and Movements Which Made for Freedom Religious Liberty and Its Conflicts Under the Constitution Sunday Laws Before the Bar of Reason Court Decisions Relating to Religion and Operation of Sunday Laws in the United History of Sunday Legislation from Con- Eight Books in One. Eight Hundred Pages Cloth binding, postpaid, only $1.00; with “ Liberty," one year, $1.25 Religious Liberty in America By C. M. SNOW This book deals with the growth of the principles of religious and civil liberty from the beginning of the Christian era down to our own time. It shows how the two principles — religious liberty and religious oppression - have run side by side through the history of nations, the one building up the true kingdom of Christ and the other making martyrs of Christ's true followers. The planting of those two principles on the shores of the New World, and the struggle between them for dominance here, is pictured in interesting detail. Considerable space is devoted to the growth and work of such un-American and oppressive organizations as the National Reform Association, the Lord's Day Alliance, and the Federal Council of the Churches, and to how these forces propose to unite and are now uniting for the enforcement of oppressive legislation, and have opened the way for union with the Catholic Church for the same purpose. The author shows how this combination of forces is working directly to fulfil the desires and purposes of Rome concerning America. The revelation of what those purnoses are and what Rome is doing to bring them about makes one of the most thrilling sections of the book. The closing chapter, "Heaven's Answer to Earth's Great Problem," shows how God will work out the problem of this world through the second coming of Christ, and the establishment of his reign in this sin-smitten world. 436 pages, fully illustrated. Cloth...... $1.00. Paper Cover, Berean Library, No. 11. ...$ .35 REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN. Religious Liberty Association DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES 1. We believe in God, in the Bible as the word of God, and in the separation of church and state as taught by Jesus Christ. 2. We believe that the ten commandments are the law of God, and that they comprehend man's whole duty to God and man. 3. We believe that the religion of Jesus Christ is founded in the law of love of God, and needs no human power to support or enforce it. Love cannot be forced. 4. We believe in civil government as divinely ordained to protect men in the enjoyment of their natural rights and to rule in civil things, and that in this realm it is entitled to the respectful obedience of all. 5. We believe it is the right, and should be the privilege, of every individual to worship or not to worship, according to the dictates of his own conscience, provided that in the exercise of this right he respects the equal rights of others. 6. We believe that all religious legislation tends to unite church and state, is subversive of human rights, persecuting in character, and opposed to the best interests of both church and state. 7. We believe, therefore, that it is not within the province of civil government to legislate on religious questions. 8. We believe it to be our duty to use every lawful and honorable means to prevent religious legislation, and oppose all movements tending to unite church and state, that all may enjoy the inestimable blessings of civil and religious liberty. 9. We believe in the inalienable and constitutional right of free speech, free press, peaceable assembly, and petition. 10. We also believe in temperance, and regard the liquor traffic as a curse to society. For further information regarding the principles of this association, address the Religious Liberty Association, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. (secretary, C. S. Longacre), or any of the affiliated organizations given below: |