164 CLEMENT C. J. WEBB, ESQ., M.A., ON THE CONSCIENCE. 



The appeal of the resisters was not to "a recognized principle of 

 the British Commonwealth — that of the equality of religions before 

 the law" (p. 150). There is no such " principle," there is no such 

 "equality." The resisters appealed to an authority beyond the 

 State; and, like Daniel of old, refused to take a willing part 

 in what they regarded as hostile to the interests of the Kingdom of 

 God. On the other hand, they acknowledged the authority of the 

 State over their goods, and took the consequences. It was thus a 

 conflict of the superior conscience against the average conscience. 



