Keeping Church and State Separate

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1889

FromThe American Sentinel, Vol. 4, No. 29.

Keeping Church and State Separate

The Overton (Neb.) Clipper has the following in reference to some lady who is securing signatures to the remonstrance against the Blair bill and kindred measures:—

“What lunatic asylum has broken loose? Last Sunday an old woman was in town with a petition to Congress to not make a Church and State government of the United States.”

To this the Phelps County Herald replies as follows:—

“Evidently the above paper favors a Church and State government. If so, it does not realize its position. Better study history a little, and see what have been the terrible results of a union of Church and State in the past. All honor to the ‘old woman’ who is contributing her mite toward keeping Church and State forever separate.”

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