Article October 4, 1900 Issue

Liberalism

BY GRACE WHITE

We have been taught that true liberalism is the loosing of the bands that have held us in bondage to tradition, with its time-honored thought-grooves, wherein man has seemingly lost himself. In the blessed loosing of his bands, man is gradually finding his true individuality as a child of God, and is finding the moral courage to sustain and maintain this great fact. He is finding that he need no longer fear and obey "vain repetitions," but may work out his own salvation, moving in accord with the Father, serving and being served, loving and being loved.

This happy mental condition of comparative freedom makes the man of to-day debtor to the courageous, noble men and women of all ages and climes who, by their unfaltering devotion to that measure of Truth which they severally possessed, have made it possible for all who follow them, to "press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

Should the liberal man have thoughts about God that are different from those of his neighbor? is a question of interest. The liberal man is tolerant, generous, and fair toward those who hold opinions that differ from his own; he is willing and glad to leave old thoughts and accept new, using these as steps by which he may mount skyward. To him "there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."

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