Persecutions There and Here

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 19, 1907

Persecutions There and Here

THERE is something that savors very much of the early days of Christianity in the recent experiences of some native Christians in Liberia. The report reads:—

Bishop I. B. Scott has succeeded in pacifying the people at Grand Cess, Liberia, and the persecution of our Christians there has been stopped. Our membership at this place has gone up from about fifty to five hundred in the past two years. The persecutors had smoked some Christians in closed cabins, tying them over fires in which cayenne pepper had been thrown.

These native expedients for preventing the spread of the gospel in that country are in the same class with those adopted during the Dark Ages to stamp out heresy and the reading of the Word of God. They bear evidence of having been inspired by the same power. There is also a marked resemblance between all these demonstrations of intolerance and the teachings and laws of our own land that make obedience to the whole law of God a punishable offense.