THE Rev. A. S. Crapsey, Episcopal clergyman of Rochester, N. Y., advocates a union of church and state as a remedy for the present inefficiency of the churches. He is quoted as saying that “the remedy for the present ineffectiveness of the churches is in their becoming scientific, democratic, and socialistic, conditions which will result in a reuniting of church and state in a distinctly modern sense.” Whether in a modern or the old-time sense, a union of church and state means a union of the church with the world, which means death to the church’s spiritual efficiency. The church has already become too much like the world; there is a vast amount of worldliness in the church. The union that needs to be sought after by the church is union with her divine head, Jesus Christ. “He is the head of the body, the church.” It is small wonder that the body is inefficient when it has lost its head. Union with Christ would make the church scientific, democratic, and socialistic in the sense that Christ was such, and the sense that will most truly promote her efficiency as a soul-saving institution in the world.