The adulterous connection between church and state
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.
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The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing it is founded on nothing it rests on no principles it proceeds by no authority it has no data it can demonstrate nothing and it admits of no conclusion.
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