The Church’s Union with the State

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 10.

The Church’s Union with the State

THE church is the spouse of Christ, married to him by individual faith as expressed in baptism. See Rom. 7:4; Gal. 3:27; 2 Cor. 11:2. Christ is to be the head of that church in all things. Eph. 1:22. When a woman leaves her husband and unites with another man, she shall be called an adulteress; and so also when the church leaves Christ and unites with the world she becomes a harlot, guilty of spiritual fornication. James 4:4; Jer. 3:20. Has not the professed church of Christ already done that in her union with the State over the matter of Sunday laws—a purely church dogma?