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a divine institution, and has sacred duties, such as guaranteeing to every man safety, and making his
person, his property, and his right to think and be. The State must be safety, justice, righteousness. There must be a free Church in a free State, the State subject to justice only, the Church subject to Christ only.
True Americans must see that the very antipodes of the idea just stated is the Romish idea. Rome claims that the Church shall be all, and the State a non-entity, and that the Roman Catholic religion shall be per mitted to exclude all other forms of faith. The Pope declares, that it is an error to be reprobated and pro scribed, that the Church shall be separate from the State. Americans are to take note of this, and be made ready to antagonize it. Rome claims that it is an error to be reprobated, proscribed, and condemned, to say that, in the case of conflicting laws between the two powers, the civil law ought to prevail, and that the church has not the power of availing herself of force, or any direct or "
indirect temporal power." These propositions so bear date Dec. 4th, 1864, of clear, so startling
and were reaffirmed by the Truly has it been said There is enough dynamite in these proposi tions to blow up our entire modern civilization, destroy liberty of conscience, and bring utter ruin upon the purity of the church and the integrity of "Errors
late
Condemned,"
Plenary Council of Baltimore. "
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State."
Americans know that
in the United States, at the present time, there is a union of Church and State to an extent little dreamed of. In New Jersey, the State Reform School has been Romanized. The unsectarian teaching, in piety and The moral and relig morals, has been destroyed. ious training of the Catholic boys is handed over