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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 14, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 20.

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Note and Comment

The Best Fruit

OVER the court of honor at the Columbian Exposition, President Eliot of Harvard had inscribed these words: "Toleration in religion is the best fruit of the last four centuries." Commenting on this, the Watchman-Examiner of Feb. 19, 1914, says:—
Yet nearly four hundred years ago (in 1524) Hubmeyer, the Baptist, in a book on "The Burning of the Heretics," said: "Christ came not to burn nor to murder, but to give life. If men cannot be convinced by appeals to reason or the Word of God, they should be left alone. The burning of heretics is a device of Satan." In 1560 a Baptist who had been the friend of John Knox complained of "those who affirmed it to be lawful to persecute and put to death such as dissent from others in controversies of religion. Be these the sheep whom Christ sent forth in the midst of wolves? Can the sheep persecute the wolf? Doth he which is born of the Spirit kill him which is born after the flesh?"