LMS 6-No. 850, August 31, 7 p. m., from London.
 
      
 
 
the most precious of them all, But we must not become too 
      complacent and decide there never will be.
 
      
 
 
There are other civil liberties which are only slightly, if 
      at all, less precious. Freedom of speech, freedom of peaceable 
      assembly, the right to trial by jury, protection against unreasonable 
      search and seizure, and the other rights which we associate with 
      citizenship, are worthy of our most ardent defense. Their violation 
      is often less easily recognized than is the abridgment of freedom 
      of worship, but their preservation is as essential.
 
      
 
 
The important thing is that we still admit and treasure the 
      principle that these freedoms are inalienable from the individual. 
      No state and no political organization can take them away from 
      him. It is this conception of the rights of man which marks off 
      the democracies from other forms of political life, and it is 
      this conception to which we must cling if we are to go on living 
      as we have been accustomed to live and as we want to live.
 
      
 
 
It was such a conception which prompted the brave and commendable 
      action Bishop Robert Kilgour, Bishop John Skinner and Bishop 
      Arthur Petrie performed on the day