LMS 3-No. 850, August 31, 7 p. m., from London.
than a king -- that the apostolic succession was not instituted
by any earthly political organization and cannot therefore be
limited of stopped by any worldly authority.
The relations between church and state have caused friction throughout
the ages. It is inevitable that there should exist a border line
of vague delineation marking the limits of the spiritual and
the temporal, and it is inevitable that this border line should
be the subject of honest difference of opinion. It is extremely
difficult, with the best will in the world, to render unto Caesar
what is Caesar's, but no more. The unhappy controversy is causing
serious repercussions in certain parts of the world. The profession
and practice of religion is being called a political offense.
Men and women are being deprived of their natural-born citizenship,
they are being thrown out of the land of their nativity, because
they profess a certain religion which the political authorities
have decided to uproot. Indeed, many who do not profess the forbidden
religion, but whose ancestors did are being treated with equal
rigor.