Article December 14, 1907 Issue

If in a given instance one member of a family becomes...

H. Coulson Fairchild

Trenton (N. J.) Times

If in a given instance one member of a family becomes enraged at other members, because of a difference of religious opinion, there is more justifiable occasion to blame the one who undertakes to meddle with the other's beliefs than there is to censure the one who out of honest convictions has espoused a new faith. I once heard of a man who said that he and his wife were one, but he was that one. It would seem that if there are any inviolable rights, whether they concern a husband or a wife, it is the individual choice of religion and medicine. There is no more reason why a husband should dominate the religious belief of a family than that a wife should regulate it, and since it is impossible for one to change his convictions, even though he might be willing to suppress their expression, the only just and perceptible means of harmony in the home regarding religious beliefs is to leave each member in the unmolested entertainment of his own faith.

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