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The Duties of State and Church

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 1888

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

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The Duties of State and Church

THE duty of the State is to protect its citizens, to preserve order, and to dispense justice. The duty of the church is to teach religion and to dispense charity. Charity, divorced from religion, provided for by public taxation, and dispensed by the State, loses its essential quality. It then becomes a certain and secure provision which society makes for its unfortunate and pauper classes.—Selected.