The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 2, Ed. 1, Monday, February 1, 1909 Page: 27 of 48
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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE
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countries where life property liberty of association and
means of communion are left unprotected.
This mutual need brings with it a mutual dependence in
all things which extend beyond the distinct province of each
power. Hence it is that in the course of Christian ages
both the Church and State have been naturally instinc-
tively drawn together for their mutual benefit just as in
our industrial age men are naturally instinctively drawn
together for the peaceful and for that reason the more
effective vindication of their rights and the promoting
of their welfare. In union reside peace and strength in
the union of Church and State as well as in union between
individuals; strength because the Church is the most effi-
cient preacher of obedience to the laws of the country and
consequently the strongest supporter of the State whilst
the State is under God the most powerful help of the
Church as it shields her from the possible attacks of auto-
cratic legislation on the one hand and the assaults of an-
archy on the other; peace because the union between
Church and State is a permanent arbitration court made
up of the representatives of the two powers which has
averted and still averts many a dreadful clash between
them.
Any serious student of history will be stunned by the
appalling vision of what Europe would have become with-
out this union with the Church . Instead of being the
cradle of Christian civilization the Mother of Literature
Arts and Sciences Europe with her multiplicity of races
and languages national prejudices and ambitions her ca-
pricious kings and rebellious princes would today evolve
before our imagination the successive centuries of her
history as so many harrowing pictures of fire and blood
of pillage and assassinations discord revolution and anar-
chy. The greatest historians of Europe Protestant and Ca-
tholic have sung the praises of the Catholic Church des-
cribing her as the great uplifter and civilizer of Europe.
Wonderful is the change that the Church brought with it
in the conception of the State. Till then the State was the
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