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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. 
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