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E. Y. Mullins on religious liberty: at the meeting of the Baptist World Alliance's Third World Congress in 1923, E. Y. Mullins ascended the dais in Stockholm, Sweden, to preach a sermon titled, "The Baptist Conception of Religious Liberty.".(Edgar Young Mullins)(Critical essay)(Essay)

Mullins began with this terse declaration: "With Baptists, religious liberty is born of the direct vision of God." Whether taking the form of a dream or eloquent discourse or solace for the sake of conscience or even a battle cry, religious liberty for Baptists "always ... has been a passion deep as life welling up from the depths of being in eternal faith and hope." (1)

Along with George W. Truett's 1920 sermon on the steps of the United States Capitol, "Baptists and Religious Liberty," Mullins's sermon was a most significant exposition of the Baptist view of religious liberty of the twentieth century. Church historians will continue to debate the relative importance of ...

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