The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

lood of the martyrs was the seed of the church.
Never did the Christian church make greater
progress than when she stood alone, unaided by
any civil power. Yea, more than this, the times of
her greatest purity and progress have been the
times when every earthly power has been arrayed
against her. Then it was that her members sought
their Lord and Master most earnestly, and reflected
his blest image most brightly.
One United States senator, in the course of his
speech on the Philippine question, declared that
“the Anglo-Saxon advances into the new regions
with the Bible in one hand and a shotgun in the
other. The inhabitants of those regions which he
can not convert with the Bible and bring into his
markets, he gets rid of with the shotgun” This is
not altogether irony. Ministers of the Christian
church are everywhere praising the war in these
islands, and preaching that it has come about in the
providence of God in order that the gospel may go
more rapidly. Just as far as this idea gets hold of
the Christian sects, just that far they assent to the
doctrine of a union of church and state; just that far
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