National Good Citizenship Movement
By Editor
“National Good Citizenship Movement.”—In another column will be found an article by Mr. G. E. Langdon, with the above title. It is the report of a meeting which the writer of the article attended. It means much. Union and confederation for good and legitimate purposes are proper, right, and commendable; but union of religious bodies to effect a political object are, in the words of Hon. R. M. Johnson, “always dangerous.” Such confederation is injury to the church, that ought to seek her source of help in Christ; and it opens the way for mistaken and zealous men to seek to enforce religious dogmas by statute law,—always a curse to religion, to the church, to the State, and an instrument of intolerance and persecution.