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Show THE LAYMAN'S DUTY There never was a time when preachers and politicians formed an unholy alliance that civilization did not shriek out and Christianity cry aloud. Since the beginning of government, gov-ernment, politicians have sought to decoy the ministry into the meshes ot politics and make them carry banners in political processions. They have taken the ministry to the mountain-top mountain-top of poiver and offered to make them monarch of all tlrey surveyed, and while most of them have said. "Get thee behind me Satan," a few have fallen with a crash that has shaken every pulpit in Christendom. |