Religious Persecution Justified by Law

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 12, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 36.

Religious Persecution Justified by Law

The Religious Persecution now going on in this country is said to be justified by law. “We must enforce the law,” say its officers; “that is our duty, whatever the law is.” This was the Pharisees’ justification of Christ’s death, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die.” John 19: 7. May it not be that the law is evil? And is there a virtue in enforcing an unrighteous law? Even Gamaliel said, “Let these men alone.”