Religious Liberty and Equal Rights

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 12.

Religious Liberty and Equal Rights

One aged brother, born in 1810, of What Cheer, Iowa, writes truly that the giving of the law to man by an all-wise God is positive proof that man, in God's way, of course, was able to keep it, and that making man a free agent is positive proof that he is at liberty to do good or evil. And as God made man in his own image of character, man inherits no principle from God to oppress his fellow-man in religious belief or practice. The example from God in Jesus Christ is equal rights and exact justice to all men. It is the pure spirit of soul-saving righteousness in human life. This sacred rule violated is now breeding persecution in our own nation. And so it is.