Religious Liberty and Christian Missions
The New York Tribune supposes thus: “Suppose there were an organized movement to convert this nation to Mohammedanism, and a number of Mohammedan preachers and teachers came hither, opened schools and mosques, and began making converts. With all our boasted liberty of conscience, should we not feel strongly moved against them, and would there not be a clamor from some earnest Christian people for suppression, forcible or otherwise, of the propaganda? Yet just as we should regard such a movement, the Turks regard the incursion of Christian missionaries into their country.” All of which is only to say that “we” are in no wise different from the Turks in the matter of freedom of religion.