Show WHAT IS t In our nur enlightened age III i rule rul 11 n u of their occupation tion Th v dd III nut openly war fail on III on of ot I of or n will WI done by hy from the days of a lUll ml nil the g S The of ot the Is 1 1 1 I thle of ur barbarism The Th 1 are therefore under th n of or them selves ai of ot law IIII and ami order There Is I they wy a II wide prosecution and unel and 1101 tiny th the distinction of ot liolin pro only this WilY may appear to as IJ exe lucid and Cord lili hll Out But It Is a 1 clumsy 01 u III I to attention from till real nature of the work worle of at engaged In bitter U Il Is l as If It a 1 physician were to defend the tho wilful killing of 01 an nil enemy under tho pretext of performing a necessary operation I The crime would bo be foul toul murder Just the th same alne n no matter how elaborate the I efforts to the fact And so HO persecution Is I whatever I may be b the pretext for tor It And perse persecutors cannot successfully conceal I their bulky by b burying their ugly bonks beaks In III the ground Prosecution sometimes la I but bul I In o U It Is safe to too toi i o It II when the Evil One OM I himself and his tools toola assume the role I of ot A well Instance Is IH that of ut the tho woman hi III the Gospel nar narrative I upon ho e the Iho Savior was n kell to puss pl Judgment by lJ a II I crowd of oC ami moral per Ier perverts verts The Master knew them their s I cret motives though they certainly In their lr hap hlll happened to be on the side of ot the law He answered them tit n they deserved by lIy enunciating the principle that the one among them without slit might th stone They thc were tors In the Iho guise of ot no fit accusers of at u weak fellow being behul Hence the tho so well merited no po matter what was WM the thc status of ot their victim It Is it pity IllY that modern seca FO EO often otten forget torl et this fundamental principle of or Justice anil undertake to sweep the premise IH of at their theli neighbors with their own soiled brooms for tor but bul the thc moral garbage pile Again when whon alleged prosecutors show unjust t discrimination thoy may rightfully be branded as Os persecutors It f several i r lire are guilty Cumy of or tile the InC m and only one ona Is railed called to 10 U t this Ita Is hi ly tho ruJI prosecution becomes per persecution particularly If malice and thirst for tor revenge are the sentiments the proceedings s A man who singles s out a 1 certain class In III a u com 1111 It and thorn the objects lit if false exaggerating P their human weaknesses every act lIel and misconstruing every Hery word doing all 1111 In tn his power to mobs turn friendship hlll Into all 1111 this for tor personal gain l he Is III an III surely BUrt a 11 persecutor us Nero Vero was ho may hide himself a II prosecutor An All Instance of ot his Is II furnished by the tho sufferings of ot the he Jews Jewl In It has been abundantly dantly proved that the prejudices and of oC the are peri perl periodically and methodically II 11 made use of ot oth h iy unscrupulous scoundrels against lI aln t that unfortunate The mobs are ure stirred up lip to murder pillage to ildo the tho of lIt the tho agitators n and to 10 then them 1111 their pockets v with plunder ler der Hut these the agitators a and their tools are persecutors pr If It they the can prove Jews Jew mortals with Ith lite and faults of ot mortals Their motives nn theli modes of pro pio brand them as such It Is hi further a 1 notable fut that very vcr often has hall taken III ken the I torm orm of ot prosecution mobs I I have hll VI risen anil turned against the vic victims Ic tims of ot their hatred with tire fire and blood blont hut but nt lit other othor times persecutors take the th of ot giving the lInro of ot If no laws cx ex 1111 nl that i erve ervo their purpose they Ih will have lave laws made IC they con or Jr un constructions of law will be 0 tried Testimony Te even If It false ral e for will lie be Introduced Huch has hall hen ien the practice of ot the th more refined persecutors lerS throughout al 1 WM lIpS Kven I eil iho Uw Hornun did not per to tl rape after th Issuance IS II ance of ot the tho defiance 11 tance of or which nade the condemnation of ot the th Naza renel to the arena urella or the appear legal of oC martyrs throughout all ng were condemned by hy legally hally constituted par parliaments and antl courts This U a fact that loes not appear to be perfectly to tome lame who view the tho past only In the tho Ight of the present Most of ot the martyrs of or ht lory were the thi of ot the use II In which the hey Tha fhi gr lt and divine l founder of ot tho church certainly was Willi convicted of on un own ns blasphemy wn under understood stood by IJ Ills His ecclesiastical Judges therefore pronounced worthy of or linth Hie wars of ot extirpation that thal were waged AI against t 1 others In n which by the IworI while ther hera were werl driven Into exile were legal In o fur as nS they thoy were authorized by b the legally constitute oIl II tute tut 1 authorities for the purpose of or promoting society against II lit danger dangerous Inn er erous ous Influences Thue erts were break IIII ng the lawn In of ot their time and UK liRe Others nut not martyrs and yet great Jr lt re were re at one time notorious hili HV breakers What hal Luther when whon he 10 staked taked hili life lite III u opposition to tl the emperor the diet Or when h hf broko his OI Induced ed n nun nUll pledged to single lift to become his wife As seen I n through tho cl of his hl he wan al a 1 transgressor of oC the laws of at both hoth man und and I I If It hi had not succeeded In his work he would In nil all probability have been heen j HO by b historians to this day y While concealed at lit Willi he not a II fugitive from Justice I Vaa was Willi a 1 traitor when I he nt lit the head of ot over I turned tho rule of foreign era u In III his country hut but he Is III nevertheless less one of ot the greatest patriots ami liberators of lit history And how many of ot these thue ure uro there who dill did not com COlli common mon re theIr career In to come liw 11 or lawful Institution And tin III It gilt Lawbreakers of or one age lire lite of CIll ten In ages hon honored ored ns hnot martyrs Inart and nud reform reformers I ers And It follows as nil n a corollary that the thu i IOS of Dt one age a often otten bra braby by other branded as All persecutors laws In I have ha e to tu b or progress would be Impossible Impo because u e all U la s are Imperfect and need modification as all times and conditions change These facts of or his history tory tor lint experience which should not be overlooked when the tho subject of per cullon Is 1 All II lawbreakers ers rH ute ille certainly not martyrs martyn or Dr re ru reformers formers Cormen No 00 lane no person makes that assertion llIn lawbreakers In nil ages are ure simply Jut Hut many of ot the martyrs whom wo we now honor were also nho classed among the law lawbreakers breakers breaker of ut their and history re reo Itself from ago age to age a fact It woud De consummate folly tolly to deny |