FORCE HAS NO PLACE IN MORALS.
As soon as force is brought to bear on an individual for moral or religious reasons, there is an invasion of his inalienable right to conform his conduct morally and religiously to his own belief in what is right. And to invade this right is to deny and set aside the right of Him who ordained rights on earth, to interfere with His purposes for mankind for this life and the life beyond. If any person's belief respecting morality or religion leads him into acts which invade another person's rights, then he can properly be restrained by civil force; not upon moral or religious grounds, but because he has invaded the rights which civil government is instituted to maintain. This is the only rule by which we can render to Cæsar that which is Cæsar's and to God that which is God's.—Sentinel of Liberty.