“In regard to the concern of seeking and holding a religion that shall be a refuge to yourself in this life, it is a good concern and exceedingly appropriate and suitable that you all—every individual of you—should investigate and judge for himself according to his own wisdom. And when you see any religion whatever, or any company of religionists whatever, likely to be of advantage to yourself, a refuge in accord with your own wisdom, hold to that religion with all your heart. Hold it not with a shallow mind, with mere guess work or merely because of its general popularity or from mere traditional saying that it is the custom held from time immemorial. And do not hold a religion that you have not good evidence is true and then frighten men’s fears and flatter their hopes thereby. Do not be frightened and astonished at diverse fictitious events and hold to and follow them. When you shall have obtained a refuge, a religious faith that is good and beautiful and suitable, hold to it with great joy and follow its teachings, and it will be a cause of prosperity to each one of you.... It is our will that our subjects of whatever race, nation or creed live freely and happily in the kingdom, no man despising or molesting another on account of religious difference, or any other difference of opinion, custom or manners.” Oddly enough, Dr. House, who seemed always to make mention of the innovations of the progressive government under the new king, makes no reference to this proclamation in his letters, nor does he mention it in his chapter on the history of missions in _Siam and Laos_. In this last named work, however, he states that on Sept. 29, 1878, the king of Siam issued “a proclamation establishing religious toleration in Laos and by implication throughout all his dominions.”