Show RELIGION AND THE LAW one effect of enactment of the mas leg slature at the columbia university men cement luncheon dean van am ringe who presided referred playfully and under his breath between courses to the fact that the massa chu legislature had granted the right to the young men s christian as so clation to confer the degree of bach elor ot laws too bad that ben butler did not live to know of it he observed it would have been a pleasant plea ant reflection to him that the bay state always first in public virtue should recognize the connection be tween religion and law precisely so rejoined his neighbor and now it Is possible to place on a boston tombstone the words here lies a law yer and a christian without going to the rouble of putting two men into one grave |