Article March 26, 1949 Issue

Signs of the Times

Liberty

with contributions from E. G. Homrighausen, Erwin Juilfs, R. B. Owen, P. P. W. Ziemann, W. E. Tilton

E. G. Homrighausen, Th. D. in an article in The Chaplain Washington, District of Columbia

The great words about which we read every day are: liberty, democracy, individual responsibility, self-determination, the religious significance of the common life. These are concepts associated with Protestantism. How necessary it is, then, that the Christianity which sanctioned the use of these words should interpret them aright.

It simply is not true that liberty means license; according to the gospel, liberty is the right to search out and follow the truth, to worship God in the truth. Liberty disassociated from truth is pure license. Democracy, or the rule of the people, is not a sanction for mob rule; rather it is the right of people to rule themselves and not to be victimized by tyranny.

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