The State can enforce, but it can not impart. Its field of operation, its realm of law, is the outward form, not the inner life. It can repress incivility, and conserve the civil rights of its citizens. But the realm of God's law is wholly spiritual. It is not His law if it be not spiritual. God says, "Thou shalt not kill." That is a spiritual law. It pertains to motive. It forbids every thought which if completed would end in murder. "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer." 1 John 3:15. So even tho a man take not the life of his fellow, in God's sight he is a murderer. The State says, "Thou shalt not kill." But that is not God's law. It is a law forbidding the outward deed for the protection of the rights of all; and its necessity would be recognized as quickly in a State where God was not known as in a State where the people all believed in Him. In fact, in a State where all had true faith such a law would not be necessary.