Civil Laws—What They Can Not Do.
Here is what a man remarks in an exchange:— ‘One of them said to me a few days ago, “Do you think the law of the United States can ever make a man a Christian?” I told him, “No, but it could make him respect Christians and the day set apart for their worship.”’ But the government of the United States and all the governments of earth can not make a man respect a Christian or a day. Law may compel him through fear and force to act as tho he respected something; but it will make the stubborn hater hate all the more. It can convert none. Religio-civil laws will make Pharisees and hypocrites; but they can not make Christians or honest men. And a man who truly knows Christ knows that this is so.