Conscience Above Human Dictation
By Editor
MANY of our religious contemporaries in the recent election campaign urged, strenuously urged, the duty of voting upon Christian citizens. They left no room for the conscience of him who was entitled to vote. Voting, they declared, was not a right or a privilege, but a duty. It would be refreshing to see as much earnestness manifested by these same journals concerning certain moral obligations which God has plainly enjoined in his word. The whole trend of the great professed church is away from the power of grace, the power of prayer, the supernatural power of Christ, to effect moral reforms; and the energy of the church is being concentrated more and more upon human means, human aids, political men and measures. It is going down to Egypt for help. God pity those who cannot see it. We are not now arguing the matter of the Christian's voting; but as his convictions should guide him in deciding between man and man, we do not know why these convictions are not now worth just as much if they lead a man not to vote at all. Man's duty to God and an enlightened conscience is above human dictation.