UNDER BONDS FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE.
By Editor
At the present time there are at least five persons in these United States who are under arrest because of their religious convictions. Three of these will soon be placed in the chain-gang, unless God specially interposes in their behalf. Now this is in free and liberty-loving America, in this year of our Lord 1899. This battle for religious freedom was fought once in the United States, and liberty of conscience was declared to be the religious right of every individual. But we are in a time of backward tendencies, and when this country fully renounces her upright principles of republicanism it is only another little step to cast off her principles of religious liberty. Keep your eyes open wide, mark well every passing event. These times are loaded with significant omens.