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worship before, felt how real "unity of spirit" did exist.

Another fruitful opportunity for joint work is in the realm of study and
of theological education. This object would be promoted by the
establishment in our Universities of theological faculties where a
part--it may be a large part but not the whole--of the training of those
who intend to enter the ministry or for other reasons to devote
themselves to theological study may be carried on. Such a faculty has
been instituted with marked success in Manchester. No test is imposed
except tests of knowledge, but the faculty has been said to be the most
harmonious in the University. Whatever body he belongs to, whatever
Church he wishes to serve, the student could not fail to gain profit
from studying the language of the New Testament under a scholar like the
late Professor Moulton, and would never find anything that--to use the
words of the founder of the University--"could be reasonably offensive
to the conscience of any student." Already the effect of such a faculty
in advancing theological study and still more in uniting members of
different communions in the pursuit of truth has been most marked.

There is one point, however, in considering the influence of religion on
Reconstruction which must be borne in mind. Untold harm has been done in
the past by the intrusion of the lawgiver or the judge into the domain
of religion, and, on the other hand, by the intrusion of the minister of
religion into the domain of the legislator or the magistrate. It is
essential that in dealing with any question of legislation or political
action the clergy and ministers of all denominations, if they take part
at all, should speak as citizens, and not professionally. They, in
virtue of their office, ought not to be, and they have the highest
authority for not claiming to be, judges or lawgivers. They have not,
and ought not to claim, any authority to decide on the lawfulness of
paying tribute to Caesar; any such claim must be strenuously resisted.
The use of religious sanctions as weapons of political warfare is not
wholly obsolete. We hear of it from across St. George's Channel--it
should be condemned like poison gas on the battlefield. And, lastly, it
must never be forgotten that there are certain things with regard to
which attempted suppression by law is certain to result in evil and
disaster. With regard to these things the influence of religion, on the
other hand, may be all-