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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 8, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 6.

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Church and State

IN the House of Representatives on May 26, 1908, Hon. Joseph J. Russell, of Missouri, quoted the following timely statement from a speech made by Mr. W. J. Bryan:—
The attempt to unite church and state has never been helpful to either government or religion, and it is not at all certain that human nature can yet be trusted to use the instrumentalities of government to enforce religious ideas. The persecutions which have made civilization blush have been attempts to compel conformity to religious beliefs sincerely held and zealously promulgated.
The above is a statement of truth which ought to be apparent to each one conversant with history.