...guiding light. When the general question is whether human governments are to be obeyed, the answer is, " He that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God." " The powers that be are ordained of God." But when these powers overstep their appointed limits, and would lord it over the...

...guiding light. When the general question is whether human governments are to be obeyed, the answer is, "He that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God." " The powers that be are ordained of God." But when these powers overstep their appointed limits, and would lord it over the...

...guiding light. When the general question is whether human governments are to be obeyed, the answer is, " He that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God." " The powers that be are ordained of God." But when these powers overstep their appointed limits, and would lord it over the...

...New Testament concerning resistance to evil, the doctrine concerning the citizen's relation to the government. What is it? " Resist not evil." The Quaker...which our ancestors have trod, leading to the grand idea of freedom and civilization which we hold to-day. See the barons at Runnymede demanding from King...

...Testament in this direction ; and if all the world were Quakers [they fought like Trojans in the late war] we might possibly get along with it, though I question...unchristian. Yet look back down the pathway of the ages upon which our ancestors have trod, leading to the grand ideas of freedom and civilization which we...