p. 8 | Churches Equal Before the Law

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 30, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 26.

Churches Equal Before the Law

Hon. J. L. M. Curry, in his valuable essay, “Establishment and Disestablishment,” very correctly says: “In the United States it can not be too frequently or strongly reaffirmed, churches or denominations or sects are on a plane of undistinguishable equality before law. The government can not interfere with their doctrines, discipline, worship, or the appointment or support of the clergy. It is sheer impertinence, insolent assumption, to talk of any American citizens as dissenters or non-conformists.”—Quoted in “Religious Liberty in the United States.”