Protestant Persecution and Religious Liberty
The so-called "National Reformers" of the United States make great pretense of love for the law of God, but their idea of its proper observance is to have their traditions enforced upon all classes by the government. This is urged in the name of Christianity—of Protestantism. The same spirit is manifested by the "Protestants" of Turkey. So anxious are they to utilize the law of the land in the suppression of religion inimical to their traditions, that they are free to use the laws of a Moslem government (backed by false accusations) in persecuting men who teach from the Bible "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." Of course our workers are the victims, one of them having been thrown into jail on false charges because he happened to be at a certain place in time to officiate at the wedding of one of our brethren, which otherwise would have given a "Protestant" minister an opportunity to charge a good-sized fee. Such are some of the vicissitudes of proclaiming the Gospel of the Bible instead of the traditions of men. But remember it is not the Moslems nor the Roman Catholics who give themselves to such work, but Protestants—the professed exponents of religious liberty.