RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE?

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 265, 29 July 1918, Page 6

RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE?

Si:',—A short time ago in your columns Mr. A L. King expressed the oiiinion that "everyone lias the right to any religion lie chooses, for religion, being a matter of conscience, lies ontsido this legitimate jurisdiction of civil government, whicn has to do with the affairs bot.veen man and his fellow-man, not with thoso that lio between man ai'id God." That is so, prowled the "religion he chooses" does not, violate the law oi God and cause Him to pour upon tin) nation "all His fierce anger" (Zcplu iii., 8). Seeing that the laws of Great Britain aro based upon the Ten Laws which God gave to Hoses, this is a moat important matter, for the State cannot .plead 'iguor> Alice, and will suffer the penalty of transgression. We have only to read Leviticus xxvi., 1, to realise that the sufferings of this poor torn and bleeding world jito the direct outcome of disobeying- God's laws, statutes, and judgments. Verses 2, 6, 15-17, 25, 30, und 31 are as clear as daylight. If the British nation i.s Israel—"fleshly Israel"—alio the Apostle Paul, carrying out our Lord's injnnctnn to tako the Gospel to the lost cheep of the House of Tsnel included Belgium nnd the British Isles in his itinerary, it is evident that our nation will sutler the penalty, as above, if _ it allows its subjects to do as they liko and go as they please. We lmist seriously ask ourselves the question: Is not God fulfilling His promise to the letter? (Dent. 28, 49, sa).—l am, etc., JOHN PLOWMAN.