The Outlook for Religious Liberty
By Editor
This is the last of our three religious liberty issues. In them have been set before our readers the great principles as enunciated in our great American charters, by the fathers of the Republic, and in the New Testament. We know that our readers who have thought over these things will see the long departure from those principles, and the need of the sentiment uttered by Justice Brewer, quoted on page 8. But in view of the power of entrenched and predatory trusts, in view of the tyranny of labor trusts,—both of which wage relentless war, ruthlessly crushing others connected with neither the one nor the other,—and in view of the ambitious and growing power of religious combinations to effect political purposes, the outlook is certainly not bright for the great Republic nor for those whose hopes are anchored in its earthly prosperity. Of this God has spoken in His word and in history, and later issues will set before our readers just what the final outcome will be. We beg them to believe that this is not mere theory or dogmatism. We shall let the "more sure word of prophecy" speak, confirmed by past history and present facts.