Fairness in the Religious Liberty Conflict
HE who has the truth can afford to be fair. "The evil cannot brook delay,
The good can well afford to wait." Therefore the friends of justice, righteousness, and truth, the opposers of all religious legislation, can afford to be fair and patient and manly in this present warfare against that which cursed the world in the Dark Ages,—religious despotism. Their opponents may use underhanded means, may falsify, may load with epithets, may misrepresent; the friends of liberty can afford to be frank, true, and just. In fact, they cannot afford to be otherwise. If they win, they win for God and the right. If they lose, they win; for noble defeat in God's cause is many times the truest victory.