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argely robbed of its evils by the tolera

largely robbed of its evils by the tolera-
ton of rival faiths.
ThIrd-The church and state are es-
sentially alien and must be kept separ-
ate, the one from the other. This was
the theory of The authors of the French
revolution and is the theory of the Am
erican seculariStS, both at the time of
the adoption of our constitution, and the
successors of that party who are largely
increasing and largely dominant in this
country.
Fourth The church and state are to
work separately in the special religious
functions of the one and the special po-
lltical functions of the other; but they
are to he actuated by common motives,
and they are to work together for COM
mon ends. In so far DIS the church is a
corporation in is the creature of the
state. whose duty it is to furnish it pro-
lection and guarantee 1t freedom. In SO
far as 1t Is spiritual commonwealth 1t
Is divinely created and can be subject to
nothing but divine authority.
The third and fourth of these theories
are rivals for the favor of the majority
OF the American people.
The most fundamental of all institu-
tons is the family; out OF the necessary
cooperation of families for common
ends energies the state. The state is
not human cOntrivanee, but a
divine arrangement in the natural
order aud human necessity.
worship; it is fundamentally culture;
it proposes for its end the development
of the individual. The state proposes
also the development of the individual,
but it proposes it with the fundamental
purpose of guaranteeing the free ION
and protection Of the individual. The
state and the church, therefore, having
common origin and a common purpose
ought to work together; and the state
which divorces itself from the church
denies its origin, ignores its true cOndi-
tiOnS, ami moves toward destruction to
which is also attached the guilt of
suicide.
In this country the state has under
taken the task of the education OF the
children. but the education Oi the chill
dren is impossible without developing
obedience TO ideas of duty. But duty
can only be truly enforced by Christian
morality. Ia the agitation with respect
to the public schools which has been
waging for many years. and which is by
no means ended, Catholics and secular
lists have joined to exclude religious
teaching, under the cry that the public
schools are srctarian. When this is
accomplished the Catholics seek to join
with the PrOttStantS under the plea that
tie schools are goddess. The public
schools are here to stay, Every patri-
otto instinct, every necessity of our ill.,
StitutiunS is pledged i'm tneir behalf.
But the schools must be neither sectar-
ian nor goddess. There are more thieves
in America than there are Atheists, and
since we d - not abolish the command
ment ~ hOu snail not steaf' at the
order of the one. neither will we abolish
the worship of God at the behest of the
other. The church n powerfully re-
infOrce the state as it develops the
moral life of the people. The state in
this country has made several attempts
during the past few years at civil Serv-
ice reform. The state is under Obliga-
lions to suppress intemperancA. and its
manifest duty is the suppression of the
open saloon; but this can only come
when the church representing the
moral forces of the community has so
regenerated society that the masses Of
the people believe i'm temperance and
are obedient to the laws of virtue.
Church and state must work together
In solving our American problem. Not
by patronage. not by endOwmentS, not
by special fayorS can the state help the
church. but by the recognition of its
own origin, and OF the o. legations which
ii owes to that God who both made man
and made human society possible.