Prayer for the Persecuted by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 10.

Prayer for the Persecuted

By Editor

The Evangelical Alliance has suggested as one of the subjects of prayer for Wednesday, January 10, "The Persecuted." It is well indeed to so pray; but while those in bondage and trouble in foreign countries are remembered, would it not also be well to remember the men who are suffering the loss of property and liberty of person for conscience' sake in the States of Tennessee, Maryland, and Georgia? No one contends that the men thus suffering are criminal, lawless, or dangerous, save with the exception that they are not in accord with the State religion. Is not their persecution, therefore, religious persecution?