I r 1 Religious Persecution II ii ll II B Uj By I Ella lIa Republican Sp Special dal Service Copyright 1507 For Pot two hours hour last night writes an acquaintance m ray my mother and antI my sister preached to me that I would lose my soul unless I came cume to their theil orthodox views of or rell religion lon I 1 cannot bell believe belle e as they do I believe in the thc Great Croat Creator and in the tho LA LAW Y OF LOVE LOVI I believe Christ was a 0 Great Master 1 who taught this law of or love lov lie is my Teacher and Brother and Friend I 1 believe cli the translators have o left verv lY e y little Tillie absolute Holy Wilt un- un violated io There Ht are so many inter inter- in Iu one line can give c various allous passages pass pass- lIa passages a ages cs that tHal I believe e I have hn as good aright a Po alight 11 right light ht to m my interpretation of Holy Hob Vr Writ r MS liS all nil the lae conflicting conflicting- ones of ot tho ral lous und and creeds 1 ui sects CI 1 try to Iov lo p c j n as my I. uno mi t j J I W n f I S r f t tWI I I hIP 11 u JU i J St o. o L nii way see own ti wa My f family cannot see u th timer that t this thiH Is h nn an evidence of brotherly love lo ovo to allow JIow your our friends LIBERTY 1 OF CO CONSCIENCE CE They feel they must mUNt think for fOl me tie antI and bring m me Inc to tn their view or 01 el else c con consign ln me to fire file Ht and brimstone after I pass on ell I really feel fel sometimes that such sueh a fate at would rt b bv happier hal than to Lo 1 live with my mv relatives s through h another an an- anether other ether life and hear hear them preach Till The lot lor JI TIt The battle batlle of mv not friend for fOl her liberty n of or conscience Is just the samo same battle that thal great man of history WILLIAM I TILE THE SILENT OF HOL HOLLAND LAND LA-D. fought with the bigots is of or the th Spanish h Inquisition And n he was WON finally assassinated because he Iw maintained maintained maintained main main- the principle as ns one of or the j ethics of true religion The fire world suffered ed f from frim bm a hundred years years' war through ju just t such Huch bigots as the family of m my correspondent IIa Had 1 she lived In WOj c flood old ulti tin duys s she ahie would have been J cn dipped in fn hot oil and allowed U to lu slowly roast to death if she had lead not come to tho thu point e of view Jew of or her Iter interested friends awl and 4 well trell Philip II of or Spain said there was no 1 crIme RI so terrible as ns FIU FREEDOM DO I OF CONSCIENCE and amI he Issued an edict i that nil all wio uso worshiped In any wa way tray 1 save HaVe HIS Ills wa catty which was us the wa way of or his church chinch should be exterminated j And sit fen he and his hili friends burned burned- and toi and amid hung and beheaded and burled alive and starved cd to lentil hundreds of thousands thousand of or good oo leo peo people pie pIc and anI all ull this was Ut done dona in the tile name nail of oC Christ 5 And his its opponents paid an m eye tot for foran an ey eye eye and and and slaughtered as many In retaliation Those charming charming- days das are arc past Ilal but ut the thc spirit of persecution still lives In time the hearts of or many devout tle Chris Chris- fans HaitH- who are arc obliged lI to bo ho o content with making their friends and rela rela- tives U mist miserable I rable In thc the way In my mj correspondent corre come j describes e lIt Ihal t Sand Sa 1 cs Hero Is an excellent test fur for un any H soul Moul ul wishing to find HIllI if it it il is un on tho the 1 0 II right ht path to lu salvation l ach morning ask aNk on awakening if IC there Is a human being on earth for COI whom you Oll feel any ill III will any one mw CJ over C l' l whose misfortunes you would rejoice any ono one to whom you ou would not extend a n kindness ft r f asked If you can CUll answer your yom own OWl j frankly Dankly In ht the negative ht und and it if you ou go u forth foith toward d tho time day with the life love iota of Jod Cos and Ii humanity in your OUI heart hoping hOllo hop hop- o ing ingo 11 n a do eln only good oI then you need not fear you 1 are ale to 10 be lac lost however ur ur JUI faith may muy differ from rein that thal of If all aJl In the world It if you OU cannot answer thi question la lit the m negative if It there is js any ono you OU dislike l II c enough to wish ill III then be sure your yom religion Is not the rl right tit kind Only as it J fills UN the tho h heart Rrt full l' l lor l'or of or love lovo JO and with pity for what fI IH is Unlovable alIt and only as It awakens the Impulse of or helpfulness toward to the he whole struggling world from rom human down dawn to tn the animal kingdom only as f It Il brings brings- S' S a consciousness of ot universal kinship is Iii religion of an any use uso In the toe wor world Id That alone Is the religion that I sa saves V