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The Gospel Needs No Civil Aid

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 18, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 24.

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The Gospel Needs No Civil Aid

"NEITHER CAN IT BE MADE TO APPEAR THAT THE GOSPEL NEEDS ANY SUCH CIVIL AID. We rather conceive that when our blessed Saviour declares His kingdom is not of this world, HE RENOUNCES ALL DEPENDENCE UPON STATE POWER; AND AS HIS WEAPONS ARE SPIRITUAL, AND WERE ONLY designed to have influence ON THE JUDGMENT AND HEART OF MAN, we are persuaded that if mankind were left in quiet possession of their inalienable religious privileges, Christianity, as in the days of the apostles, would continue to prevail and flourish in the greatest purity by its own native excellence, and under the all-disposing providence of God."—Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, to the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776.