Church Disestablishment in France
In a comment on the probable result of church disestablishment in France, the British Weekly (London) says:— What will be the result of disestablishment and disendowment? The answer is that whatever is true and real in the religion of the country will survive and flourish. In so far as religion is dead, the mimicry of life will be at an end, and well that it should be at an end. Whatever is true and real in religion will survive and flourish without the support of the state. Whatever is true and real in religion has a far stronger support than the arm of the secular power. Not human law, but the divine law; not human agencies, but divine agencies—God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, ministering angels—sustain and propagate the true religion. If Sunday observance be a part of the true religion, it will survive and flourish without the aid of legislation. All that is true and real in religion is sustained by love, the strongest force in the universe. And whatever is not true and real in religion does not deserve to be sustained, and the sooner it goes down into oblivion, the better.