RELIGIOUS OBJECTORS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 97, 18 January 1919, Page 8

RELIGIOUS OBJECTORS

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Those of your readers who have not been blinded by sectarianism and strife will be in accord with the principle involved in.the clipping from your article on "Religious Objectors," quoted by Thomas A. Hunter. Instead of. classing them as religious objectors, they should he designated by their proper name, "Saints of God." These men believe that it is against the principles laid down by Jesus Christ for tliein to "have a row" with anybody, much less to "take the sword" against them, and it must he patent to all that to collect these saints'and incarcerate them in prison is absolutely the worst thing* a community could do. These men would suffer themselves to bo placed against the wall and shot rather than engage in strife of any description. i God Almighty will not "keep His anger for ever," and tho quicker this wrong is righted the better it will he .for the nation.. regard to your correspondent's anxiety about the flouting the law of the laud he need not let that trouble him, for the type of man above-mentioned, who does as he would be done by, and who endeavours to "love his neighbour as himself," is just the sort of citizen the world needs to-day. It is more serious to disobey the laws of God. Our Lord declared that "they tlint take the sword shall perish with the sword," and commanded that "as ye stand praying forgive if ye have aught to forgive." Is there anyone who cannot discern the fulfilment of the . above prophecy in the crumbling away of the nations to-day? In your issue of this morning it is stated that one. of tho first matters to lie tackled bv the Peace Conference will be Uolshevism, but unless the nations lirsfc right their wrongs their effort will he in vain.—l am, etc., JOHN PLOAVMAN. •