Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted \u2026 for my name\u2019s sake. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Matt. 24:9<\/i><\/p>\n
3080<\/b> Lesson From The Clocks<\/b><\/p>\n
Charles V was determined to compel all his subjects to adopt his way of thinking about religion. Thousands died rather than conform. Weary of a long reign, Charles abdicated in 1556, and retired to a monastery, where he amused himself by trying to make a dozen clocks run absolutely together. <\/p>\n
When he failed, he exclaimed: \u201cHow foolish I have been to think that I could make all men believe alike about religion when I cannot even make two clocks run together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
3081<\/b> The Plymouth Rock Inscription<\/b><\/p>\n
The inscription on the Plymouth Rock monument is a challenge to every generation of Americans: \u201cThis spot marks the final resting place of the Pilgrims of the Mayflower. In weariness and hunger and cold, fighting the wilderness and burying their dead in common graves that the Indians should not know how many had perished, they here laid the foundations of a state in which all men for countless ages should have liberty to worship God in their own way. All you who pass by and see this stone remember, and dedicate yourselves anew to the resolution that you will not rest until this lofty ideal shall have been realized throughout the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014The Watchman-Examiner<\/i><\/p>\n
3082<\/b> Substitute Imprisonment<\/b><\/p>\n
When Fox, the founder of the Friends or Quakers, was lying in filthy dungeon at Lancaster, a Friend went to Oliver Cromwell and offered himself, body for body, to lie in the prison in his stead, if Cromwell would accept the substitution and let Fox at liberty. <\/p>\n
Cromwell was so struck with the offer that he said to the great men of his council, \u201cWhich of you would do as much for me if I were in the same condition?\u201d Although he could not accept the Friend\u2019s offer, because it was contrary to law, yet the power, he said, and truth of his generous offer \u201ccame mightily over him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014C. E. Macartney<\/p>\n
3083<\/b> More Substitute Imprisonments<\/b><\/p>\n
During the Commonwealth one hundred and sixty-four Quakers from different parts of the nation came up to Westminster and pleaded at the bar of the House of Commons for permission to substitute themselves, body for body in full tale, for their friends then lying in different prisons throughout the kingdom. <\/p>\n
With the very odour of their lives of faith breathing upon the British senate, they stood before the Speaker with their quiet and serene faces, and presented this strange embarrassing request to a Parliament which had deposed Charles I for trampling upon the political rights of the people but which still held that religious opinions were to be prescribed and conscience governed by law. <\/p>\n
\u2014Elihu Burritt<\/p>\n
3084<\/b> Napoleon On Religious Freedom<\/b><\/p>\n
Nobly did Napoleon Bonaparte, in the year 1804, maintain the rights of conscience, in his reply to M. Martin, president of the Consistency of Geneva, in words worthy to be held in everlasting remembrance\u2014\u201dI wish it to be understood that my intention and my firm determination are to maintain liberty of worship. The empire of the law ends where the empire of the conscience begins. Neither the law nor the prince must infringe upon this empire.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014H. C. Fish<\/p>\n
3085<\/b> Conscience Belongs To God<\/b><\/p>\n
When certain persons attempted to persuade Stephen, King of Poland, to constrain some of his subjects, who were of different religion, to embrace his, he said to them, \u201cI am king of men, and not of consciences. The dominion of conscience belongs exclusively to God.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Whitecross<\/p>\n
3086<\/b> Khrushchev\u2019s Last Question<\/b><\/p>\n
Of all questions publicly addressed to Khrushchev during his U.S. visit, the very last was the only one which evoked anything even approaching a serious discussion of religion under communism. It was asked by Edward P. Morgan of the American Broadcasting Company at the end of a news conference held in Washington just a few hours before Khrushchev left to return to Moscow. <\/p>\n
Morgan: \u201cThose of us who went to the U.S.S.R. with Vice President Nixon were surprised at the number of young people in church. If there is an increasing interest in religion, what will be your attitude towards churches?\u201d<\/p>\n
Khrushchev: \u201cWell, first of all I believe the question itself confirms the fact that we do have a full freedom of conscience and religion in our country as we have been saying all along. <\/p>\n
\u201cMany of our young people hear about religion, about God, about saints, about church ceremonies, and they have a curiosity about this. Even if each one of them goes to church only once, they are so numerous that the doors of our churches would never close. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo there is nothing surprising about these things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Today<\/i><\/p>\n
3087<\/b> Liberty\u2019s One Exception<\/b><\/p>\n
When Mexico\u2019s new President, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, accepted the presidential nomination, he pledged that his government would \u201cprotect and guarantee all liberties but one\u2014the liberty of doing away with the other liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diaz is expected to follow a middle course that will not tolerate extremism from either the left or the right. He once remarked, \u201cI like to operate like a submarine on sonar. When I am picking up noise from both the left and the right, I know my course is correct.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014New York Times<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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