Gladstone on Church and State

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 31.

Gladstone on Church and State

FIFTY years ago Mr. Gladstone, then a member of Parliament from Newark, wrote a small book entitled, "The Religion and its Relation with the State," in which he advocated the idea that it was the duty of a government of the country as a government, to adopt and propagate whatever form of religion the majority of the people believed to be true. But Mr. Gladstone has lived long enough since writing his book to entirely change his views in regard to Church and State, and is now an avowed advocate of disestablishment in Scotland and Wales; and, indeed, in England also, as soon as the people shall be ready for such a step.