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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 8, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 35.

What Then?

By R.

SOLON, the great Athenian lawgiver, once said that a republic walks upon two feet; one foot being just punishment for the unworthy, the other due reward for the worthy; if it fail in either of these, it necessarily goes lame. But we would like to ask what happens if it fail in both of these. It does fail in both of these under a union of church and state, for penalty for conscience’ sake is not due reward for him who refuses submission for conscience’ sake, and it is not just punishment for the unworthy persecutor and bigot who has thus perverted justice and sought to control conscience by force.