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Show DO OPPOSED TO ALL RELIGIOUS LAWS B SAN FRANCISCO. C.il , April 9. B That the very foundation principles of H ihe separation of church and state. H upon which the American government H was founded, and for which such noble characters as George Washington. J f ferson, Madison, and Lincoln stood, are in grave danger of bring overturned H ihrough the misguided efforts of cer-, H tain religionists, who would invoke the H aid of policemen and sheriffs to en- , I force church dogmas, was the startling statement of Pastor C. S. Longacre, of Washington. D. C, one of the departmental depart-mental secretaries of the North Amor-nan Amor-nan Division Conference of the Seventh-day AdvenUsts. As he stood before be-fore the thousands of delegate! and i . preventative adventists, now assembled assem-bled at the Exposition auditorium hero in th(r wnvM rnnfernre ho declared I his emphatic belief that a flood of re-torn re-torn legislation, which forebodes trou-He trou-He rather than pence, is certain to i break out during the reconstruction period after the war. He made It plain that ho has no sympathy with t fforts to enact religious laws. |