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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 1888

FromThe American Sentinel, Vol. 3, No. 1.

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Civil Government and Religion

As American citizens, we hold to the American doctrine that human government relates solely to external affairs, and does not reach, and is not intended to control, our spiritual relations. Civil government covers the relations of citizens to each other, and to the State. Divine government concerns our relations, both individually and collectively, to the Supreme Being, and does not come under the control of State enactments. The only office of civil government relating thereto is to “hold its hands off.”—Selected.