The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-21
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS
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 OF THE SEASON.
"The Development of Religious Lib- erty in Connections" by M. Louise Greene, Ph. ID.


 erty in Connecticut," by M. Louise
 Greene, Ph. D.
 A remarkable book, which should be in every Connecticut library, private and public, is The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut" by M. Louise Greene, Ph. D., which is pub- lished by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. The book is a clear, unbiased, well written and extremely interesting resume of the growth of religious liberty in our com monwealth, and tells the story from the birth of Congregationalsm in England and its establishment here to the time when all restrictions upon other forms of worship in Connecticut were remov- ed, and all were at liberty to worship as their consciences dictated, free from any domination or hindrance from the dominant church organization. The long and painful struggle is presented in all essential details. A great amount of research and consultation of author ities was involved in the preparation of this admirable volume. Copies, $2; at the Pease, Lewis Co.'S.
 ID. F, F." in the Hartford Courant says of the book Tt is a masterly unfolding of the subject, eyincing thor ough research, firm grasp of the lpanifold materials acquired, clear comprehension of the chief motives and issues involved, and the rare method of presenting in an orderly and lucid manner the valuable results of histori- cal results of historical erudition as distinguished from the incidental de- tails which too often cucumber similar monographs. One who is at all famil- far with the increasing and important subject of which this volume treats, feels, as he peruses these pages how much, diligently sought out and pa- tiently studied and sifted, lies behind the text, unexpressed, but it's back ground and basis.
 One follows with admiration the au- thor's wise and safe guidance through the intricacies of what we may call the overgrown wildwood of certain peri ods, earlier periods, of Connecticut and New England's religious history thickets in which many writers have lost the trail and gone astray.
 Without hesitation we say that in no single work that we know has the de- velopment of religious liberty in Con necticut been so ably, thoroughly, can- didly and correctly presented as in this compact and comprehensive volume The absolute impartiality of the book is noticeable Nowhere does the writer indicate any bias of mind, but, through out, an eye single to the facts in the case and the truth underlying the facts.
 In the first chapter is given a prelim- mary sketch of the evolution of early Congregationalism, and the second chapter treats of the transplanting of Congregationalism, the beginning of it's polity and the formation of New Eng land churches. The third chapter treats of church and state in the four New England colonies, early theologi- UISCHSSlOliS, behalf of religion, state authority at the cost of church independence, and the practical workings of the theory of state and church in Connecticut. This fundamental theory, prolific of disturb ances implied the duty of the state to maintain and support religion, to lay taxes for such support, to control the church, and, by inference, to define the creed and polity of the church, and to supervise the morals of the members. Magistrates were regarded as Nursing Fathers to the church. The author notes how Connecticut differed from Massachusetts and New Haven, in that, theoretically, church and state were separated ins Connecticut, and also notes how the great Connecticut leader, Thomas Hooker was far in ad- vance of the ministers and statesmen of his time. This practical union of Church and state in the colonies, though foreign to the fundamental principles of ngregationalism, was the theory of that age. It inevitably clung to the men who came hither from England, although Hooker attempted to shake it off, 1t created an established church here, and was the root of early and long-continued disturbances. The conviction that the state should SUD- port. and therefore supervise and con- trol. one form of religion, and only one, ever present to the colonial minister