A SOLEMN DUTY | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 30, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 26.

A SOLEMN DUTY.

It is especially fitting, aye, more than that, it is the duty of every American man and woman to free their own minds from ancient hatred and hereditary prejudices, and to instill in the minds of their children the humane principles that underlie our civil State. Let them bear in mind that just so sacred as religion is, so is every one's right to choose the one by which his hopes and his aspirations shall be guided, and that very distinction and proscription based upon the denial of this sacred right is as much in conflict with true religion as with true democracy.—Hon. Oscar S. Strauss, in “Religious Liberty in the United States.”