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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 12.

Editorial.

By Editor

"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable."—2 Tim. 3:16.

THE angel said to the Virgin Mary of our Saviour before he was born, "Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins." Matt. 1:21. Herein is the value of Christ's salvation.

LIBERTY is the right of the other man to think for himself. That this has not been the general sentiment of the past is admitted, but nevertheless it is the true principle. The religious bigot of past and present has thus expressed by his acts his idea of liberty: "Liberty, gentlemen, is my right to think for myself, and the right of everybody else to think just as I do." This was the "liberty" granted by the papal governments of Europe during the Dark Ages. This was the "liberty" granted by the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony. This is the "liberty" which our modern National Reformers and Sunday-law people, out of the abundance of the goodness of their hearts, will give us when they come in power. But it is not the liberty of generous manhood. The nobleman of nature grants the liberty of the other man to think for himself. This is the liberty enjoined by the Christianity of Christ. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."