. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . oral and ecclesi-astical matters. During all the ages the Roman CatholicChurch has advocated, and wherever possible has prac-tised, the enforcement of the teachings and worship of thechurch. But the whole Protestant world has for manydecades been possessed of the dream of the speedy triumphof religion over all forms of evil. Not seeing the progressdesired in this direction, and having denied and discardedthe supernatural part of religion, they seem to be plan-ning for an organized raid on all unrighteousness, to haste
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . oral and ecclesi-astical matters. During all the ages the Roman CatholicChurch has advocated, and wherever possible has prac-tised, the enforcement of the teachings and worship of thechurch. But the whole Protestant world has for manydecades been possessed of the dream of the speedy triumphof religion over all forms of evil. Not seeing the progressdesired in this direction, and having denied and discardedthe supernatural part of religion, they seem to be plan-ning for an organized raid on all unrighteousness, to hastenon the speedy triumph of religion. Would it not be forthe greatest good to the greatest number? Why shouldthe commercial and industrial trusts secure all the benefitresulting from this new system of organized and combinedeffort? For many years these things have been discussed bythe pulpit and the press, with the greater number of all thereal efforts of the church for the good of the world devotedmore to the salvation of the state than of the individual, 36 GODS TWO BOOKS. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND GODS TWO BOOKS 37 till the contagion of this trust fever has quickened theirpulses, and in the Federal Council of the Churches ofChrist in America we already see a very important steptaken in the direction of at least a federal union of all the orthodox churches for the enforcement of those thingsthat are held by them in common. But in the light ofthe history of the first centuries, when a similar work wascarried on and developed into the Catholic Church, withthe enforcement of its regulations by civil law, what canbe expected from a similar work in our day but a revivalof that curse of all the ages save our own, religion by law? And it is not at all difficult to trace it all largely to thescientific and philosophic teachings of the day; for it is theyounger men, those educated in an atmosphere of Evolutionand Higher Criticism, and accustomed from youth tosneers about the nursery yarns of G
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