Religious Control of Government
By Editor
If any great political party of this country should single out certain things in the dogmas and practices of great churches, and use all their influences against these purely religious dogmas, petition Congress against them, and seek by coercive influences and boycott to turn people from the church, what would these religious bodies say? They would denounce such work as persecution and tyranny and subversive of all the liberty guaranteed by our government. And they would justly so declare. But is not the church doing this very thing? is she not seeking by her combined influence, by petitions, by boycotts, by coercive measures, to compel the secular government to yield to religious control? And is it not intolerance, oppression, tyranny from the source where it should be least expected?