Civil Government and Religion [pp. 195-236]

THE
Pk1?S.BYTISKIAX QUAkTEkLY
AND
t)KINClsToX kEVIEW
NEW SERIES, No. i8.-APRIL, i8~6.
Art. 1.-CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION.
By LYMAN H. ATWATER.
i.-Church and State in the United States, by JOSEPH. P. THoMPSON.
2.-Two Lectures u~on the i?dations of Civil Law to Church Polity, Dis cipline, and Pro~e4y, by HON. WILLIAM STRONG, LL.D., Justice of the
Supreme Court, U. S.
3 — The Last Annual Message of the President of the U. S.
4. - Th~ Political Ez~ostuiation of MR. GLADsTONE, and the i?e~lies to it
of DR. NEWMAN and A~c~isiio~ M~NING.
THE question concerning the right relation of religion to
civil government has for some years been rapidly coming to
the foreground throughout Christendom, and is compelling attention even in heathendom. In proof of this it is only necessary to call to mind the fierce conflicts in Britain and Germany, headed by Gladstone and Bismarck on the one side, and
the Roman Pontiff and his surbordinate hierarchs on the other;
likewise, the contentions in our own country in regard to religion and sectarianism in State schools, the statutes for Sabbath
`observance, the taxation of church property, which have
evoked an expression as explicit as it is unexampled, in the