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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 18, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 24.

Eternal Vigilance and Liberty

You, reader, may not feel or believe that there is danger of any union of Church and State or religion and State in this country. But are you resting in the traditions of the past, trusting that present conditions will ever persist? or do you believe that the enlightenment of the age would prevent a recurrence of the history of the Dark Ages? If either is the case, let us plead with you to study conditions. Remember the great truth, so forcibly expressed by Curran, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” We may win liberty, but she will abide only in the broad, true souls who won her, and who will endure as much to maintain and defend as they did to win.