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Churches and Worldly Powers

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 7.

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Churches and Worldly Powers

THIS is about what is to be expected from worldly powers. The promise not to labor to convert Mohammedans is all right. A government has no right to charter a company for that purpose, nor has the company the right to employ men under such a charter to propagate religion. Neither has the company the right to make war on Christians or to obstruct the work of the missionaries, so long as those missionaries confine their work to their legitimate sphere, namely, teaching and persuading men. Woe be to that church which depends on the State for help. She will always come from such a union defiled and shorn of strength.