RIGHTS VERSUS TOLERATION

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 28, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 21.

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RIGHTS VERSUS TOLERATION

United States Senate Report, 1829
WHAT OTHER NATIONS CALL RELIGIOUS TOLERATION, WE CALL RELIGIOUS RIGHTS. THEY ARE NOT EXERCISED IN VIRTUE OF GOVERNMENTAL INDULGENCE, BUT AS RIGHTS, OF WHICH GOVERNMENT CAN NOT DEPRIVE ANY PORTION OF CITIZENS, HOWEVER SMALL, DESPOTIC POWER MAY INVADE THOSE RIGHTS, BUT JUSTICE STILL CONFIRMS THEM.