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Show CHURCH AND STATE: HERE AND ABROAD The Deseret N ews savs that ehureh and state wprp as nearly separate as possible in I'tah when the president of the ehureh was likewise iioirnor of the Territory. Tt is true that they wepn separate; there was no state. Bishop Whitney m his hisi,,r says the first government here w as a pure t be,.,., and if any one ran point to any ehanee that was mad" while Bripham Younp was f;,,rrnor sueh an one will make a new disenvery. But n-. mi.- ean fo lfw the falsehoods of the News; that the edit. a- con. tinues to live makes the ordinary man doubt th. authentieity of the story of Ananias But it does not matter, we bepan tlw artn le to pivf a hint of the world's sentiment .m the fpi,sti"n of the union of ehureh and state K.eryone has noticed what Franee has heen doinr. ,,- tUll ,Mr., past to eomplete an absolute separat".n ..f tip t w v Just now. too. the Enchsh people niakitu' a determined effort to free national education from t.-rlesiastical t.-rlesiastical control. The German Reiehstap has been dissolved b the Emporer to try to put an end to the dictation of the Clerical party in the German Parliament. The Spanish Government has inaugurated a policy which can only end in the complete separation separa-tion of church and state in Spain. Mexico was the first land to lead in the movement move-ment to break the political power of a ehureh that had dominated Mexico for -IO years. And not one of the movements was started as a warfare upon religion, but because the best thought of the nations was that men whose lives are absorbed in the service of relipion are not fitted to j handle the affairs of state, and experience has provf d that when they try. the influences of their religious training and cultivated reverence for their creed in the long run causes them to pjve the creed preference prefer-ence in their judgments. The fathers who framed our own Government, though individually member, of many churches, understood the matter perfectly and so framed it that the state cannot infringe upon any church, and no church can usurp any pov.t r of the 6tate. |