Excerpt from Politics for American Christians: A Word Upon Our Example as a Nation
There is no small confusion of ideas among even intelligent men, and good Christians, on the subject of the bearing of Christianity on social and political questions. "Do you suppose I mingle my religion with my politics?" replied, not long since, a man of standing in his church, to a gentleman who had taken him to task for political conduct inconsistent with his religious profession. There are not a few who seem to be of the same opinion; that, in the way of politics and business, they can be perverse, rabid, undermining, overreaching, overbearing, if not dishonest and indecent, provided they keep their every-day conduct quite distinct from their religious observance and Sunday demeanor. Christianity permits no such distinction, - not even in the slightest degree. It is true that the great Author of Christianity, our Religious Lawgiver, Teacher, and Exemplar, enjoins no interference with political institutions.
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