A HINDRANCE TO CHRISTIANITY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 2, 1907

A HINDRANCE TO CHRISTIANITY.

It is a well-known fact that the natural rights of the people are more narrowly circumscribed, more perniciously infringed, by religious legislation than by legislation of any other character; therefore, liberty of conscience, and legitimate liberty of action are thereby jeopardized to a greater extent than by any other species of legislation. And the freer the people are in matters of conscience, the more charitable they are toward each other, and therefore more susceptible to the appeals of the Gospel. There is no greater hindrance to the cause of true Christianity than attempts to enforce religious tenets by civil law. All church history attests this point.