Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Freedom, Civil and Religious: The American Conception of Liberty for Press, Pulpit, and Public, as Guaranteed in the Federal Constitution
The publishers of this book believe in civil government and in the importance of religion. The Christian church and organized civil government are both of divine origin. We believe that the Christian church was established by God for man's spiritual welfare, and that civil government was ordained by divine authority to protect all men in the exercise of their natural rights.
But while we believe that both the church and the state are ordained of God for man's highest good, we also hold that each is ordained for an entirely different and separate line of work, that they should operate in distinct spheres, and that the realm of the one is in no sense the sphere of the other.
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