p. 16 | Our Land of Liberty by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 54.

Our Land of Liberty

By Editor

Our "Land of Liberty."-Just as we go to press the news reaches us that one Christian, D. C. Plumb, a school student, has been sentenced for twenty-seven days for cutting wood on Sunday, and another in Pennsylvania, E. W. Remminger by name, a mechanic, is under arrest for the same reason. Both of these men work the first six days of the week, as did Jesus the Carpenter of Nazareth. Both of these observe the seventh-day Sabbath, as did Jesus, at least as well as they know how. For following Christ in this our "land of liberty" they and others before them have been arrested, fined, and imprisoned, mobbed, stoned, and life imperiled. Would not Jesus, if he were here doing as "he did aforetime," as "his custom was," be thus treated, and that too by those who profess his name? What reason have we to believe otherwise?