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. |