Article July 5, 1930 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Amos R. Wells, John Callahan, W. P. Livingstone, Daniel A. Poling, Courtney Weeks

[Dr. Amos R. Wells, in the Christian Herald, New York, New York]

There is a noble passage in the writings of William McKinley in which the martyred President uses these prophetic words: "Liberty to make our own laws does not give us license to break them. Liberty is responsibility and responsibility is duty; and that duty is to preserve the exceptional liberty we enjoy within the law and for the law and by the law."

Those words might well have been written for these days. ... They are true, however, for all times and all persons. The Psalmist knew himself to be at liberty only when he was obedient to God's laws. The Christian knows that only Christ's truth, and the observance of it, can make him free. No more arrant nonsense is talked to-day than the ceaseless chatter about a "personal liberty" which means only personal license to get drunk and make others drunk. No one is free to do wrong; every one is free to do the right.

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