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Persecution’s Consequences

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 23, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 4.

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Persecution’s Consequences

It is incumbent on the authors of persecution previously to reflect whether they are determined to support it in the last extreme. They excite the flame which they strive to extinguish, and it soon becomes necessary to chastise the contumacy, as well as the crime, of the offender. The fine which he is unable or unwilling to discharge, exposes his person to the severities of the law, and his contempt of lighter penalties suggests the use and propriety of capital punishment.— Gibbon, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” chapter 37.