The Churches And the Wage Earners a Study of the Cause And Cure of Their Separa
The Churches And the Wage Earners a Study of the Cause And Cure of Their Separa
Clarence Bertrand Thompson
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* The tendency of advancing civilization is toward the complete separation of church and state; history has decided against their union. ^ As usual, there is justification in both views, and the truth seems to lie between them. In our contemplation of the numerous evils which have been associated with the activities of the church in the affairs of government, we are very prone to overlook or forget the enormous power for good the church has thus been enabled to be. In the past "every new religi...on has either cre- ated a new type of society, or transformed the old. " The Christian Church first transformed the religion and life of Roman society, and was then itself converted by the governmental tra- ditions of that society into a hierarchical repre- sentative republic, and thus became responsible, in an indirect way, for the modern democratic ' Shailer Mathews, "The Church and the Changing Order. " ^ Lecky, /. C. THE WAGE EARNERS 119 conception of government. The hierarchical overshadowed the democratic elements in the Middle Ages, and the rulers, outside the towns, utilized the theocratic caste so as, on the whole, to retard the growth of strength among the lower orders of the people.
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