Show Pastor pastor Returns I i i-c i o. FI From rom Ot Ohio I IO Pastor F F. H. H Rahm nahm of the Moab and Price Seventh-day Seventh Adventist church returned from the World Conference session In Cleveland Ohio this week Due to bad weather storms and floods the pastor was wu delayed and spent Friday night In Delta Colorado and left leCt there early Saturday morning and arrived In Moab In time for the Sabbath services at the Adventist church here At the 11 am a.m. worship service Pastor Rahm gave a report on the Cleveland meetings He Ue re reported reported reo ported that Sunday observance laws are a greater threat to personal liberty today than at any time since the blue law lawera lawera lawera era of Americas America's colonial days Eight thousand delegates and visitors from Crom 90 countries heard Dr Alvin W W. Johnson WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington DC D.C. decry increasing efforts to certain church and business groups to enact and enforce enforce en en- force Coree Sunday legislation Dr Johnson religious liberty director of the world denomination denomination told the convention These efforts are arc well meaning but they can eventually result in religious re reo re- re persecution and actual abolition of liberty i day Seventh dag Adventists observe observe observe ob ob- ob- ob serve Saturday as the Christian Sabbath They oppose Sunday legislation on two counts it was pointed out First that no re religious religious religious re- re principle should be imposed imposed imposed im im- im- im posed by legislation Second that Sunday legislation is discriminatory discriminatory dis dis- in that it forces a aman aman aman man who observes Saturday as us the Sabbath to earn a livelihood in to five days when when others are re redoing doing the same in six Th The official said demands for strict enforcement of Su Sunday laws or for the passage of new legislation have been made in inthe inthe inthe the past four years in Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut New NewYork NewYork NewYork York New Jersey Pennsylvania ia la Maryland Ohio North Carolina Carolina Car Car- olina and in many other states Some of these states have commendable exemptions for I persons who observe another day Dr Johnson said But the exemptions only stress the re religious religious religious re- re nature of the original law and as such are way half-way stations stations' on the road to freedom free free- dom Seventh-day Seventh Adventists can legislation calling for forone forone i one days day's rest in seven as a public health measure Dr Johnnson Johnson John Johnn son Ion said sald but It should not desIgnate designate des des- ignate which day must be used for Cor rest Problems concerning religious reli reU religious liberty are by no means confined to the United States or North American continent he declared It Is becoming a world problem |