H. L. Wayland and Religious Liberty
It is with deep regret that we record the death of H. L. Wayland, D.D., formerly editor of the National Baptist of Philadelphia, and for several years past associated editorially with The Examiner (Baptist). Doctor Wayland was both a good writer and speaker, and, being a great lover of freedom, he was ever ready to accord to others the rights of conscience that he prized so much for himself. The old-fashioned principles of religious freedom were deeply inwrought in his nature, and, while he was devotedly a Baptist, he was active in his defense of the principle that all others should be allowed the fullest rights of conscience. He did not believe in religious liberty for himself alone, but believed in it just as strongly for those who held different views from his own. When such men pass from the stage of action, the world sustains an incalculable loss.