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A Wrong Way

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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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A Wrong Way

If the church is ever to purify and elevate the State, the object will be accomplished, not by assuming the functions of the State, but by regenerating human nature. Society is the aggregation of individuals, and as these individuals are intelligent and moral, so will be its government. No fountain can rise higher than its source, and no social democracy can call into existence a higher standard of life than the average of its constituents. The present movement to organize a Christian State is in method, tho not in purpose, a retrograde step in human progress.