Standzrd Essays on State Churches. (Miall.) — These essays are
published by "The Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control," and are reprints, some dating from the earlier years of the century. The names of their authors show the line of thought pursued in the essays themselves, while the name of the society which has undertaken their republication is significant of the tendency of the whole volume. Dr. Wardlaw, Dr. Pye Smith, Mr. Binney, Mr. Baptist Noel, Mr. Angell James, and Professor Vinet are the leading men whose works have been laid under contribution, and they, with others of less note, attack the principle of an established church as un-Scriptural, immoral, incompatible with the rights of citizenship, and an impeachment of the intrinsic power of the Gospel. As the essays are not new, we need not analyze their arguments.
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