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Show Driving ut Christ. Some of the ribald statesmen of France have thrown discredit upon the movement for the separation of church and state, in that country, by declaring their warfare to be, not against the interference in-terference of church in politics, but against every form of Christianity, which they would banish from France. "We have Jesus Christ on the run," one of them is reported to have said, "and soon we will rout him out of the country." coun-try." Suppose this could happen, and suppose sup-pose Jesus Christ should take with him out of the country all that he has brought into it. What a vision of horror hor-ror would France present to the world, in contrast with her present position as one of the most progressive and most enlightened nations on the globe! Let any one read the pictures drawn by historians his-torians of the degraded conditions of human life, among both rich and poor, In all parts of the Roman empire, just prior to the dawn of the Christian era, and he will realize the breadth of the contrast between heathen Gaul and modern France, the beneficiary of the faith which the ribald condemns. St. Faul Pioneer Press. |