The "Cumberland Presbyterian Banner," which is endeavoring to hold the church property and perquisites to the loyal in that denomination who refuse to enter the great Presbyterian fold, in its issue of January 14 utters some excellent religious liberty principles. It declares: "The real affront—the most serious form of the sin—is not against man, but against God. It is that of assuming on the part of some of God's creatures to exercise the office of spiritual and governmental monitor over the judgments and consciences of others of God's creatures. No man with a true conception of his own dependence and limitation, would dare assume to exercise such an office over the conscience of another. To assume to speak for the Most High, or in any way or to any extent that robs the individual conscience of the right to speak as the Holy Spirit may speak, or as it alone is able to discern between that which is good and that which is evil, is one of the most blinding sins that the finite can commit. There is no other sin that so quickly and thoroly converts men into demons. "Whatever may have been their previous standing or powers, all is lost when once the finite assumes to exercise the offices of light and government that belong to the Most High. There is neither limit nor accounting for what any man or set of men will do when once they set themselves up as lights to other men. It means war between them and those who acknowledge the sole supremacy of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Instead of becoming seers and prophets of wisdom, they become the victims of their own delusions. And resistance or defeat converts them into ecclesiastical hyenas."