INDEX.

ABANDONMENT of State education, 44.

Amendment of the Constitution: Ex-Speaker Blaine's, 15; Judge
Hurlbut's, 16.

Army chaplains, 302.

Associations, not religious, 146–148.

Bible reading of without note or comment, 42, 85; versions of,
77, 78; a religious book, 78; what Bible to be used, 79–81;
as a reading classic, 82; selections from, questions, 83, 84; the
result, 86; analogy of to law, 373-375; its expulsion from
public schools, 373-375; a sectarian book, 42.

Blasphemy: criminal, legally defined, 314; on what ground pun-
ishable, 315-318, 322, 323.

Butler, Bishop, his remark about education, 55.

Central topics of discussion, 376.

Chaplaincies, theory of, 307-311; no precedent for Bible reading
in public schools, 312, 313.

Christ, his plan, 91, 92.

Christian country, sense of, 370.

Christianity and the common law: Lord Mansfield on, 187; the
English commissioners on, 187; Thomas Jefferson on, 187,
188; text writers on, 189-191; decisions of American courts,
191-199.

Church and State, forms of, III.

Church proper: left free, 351; its temporalities, 355, 356.

Church property: tax exemption of, 262-265; its amount, 265;
rate of increase, 265; argument against exemption, 266-274;
trusts and charitable uses, 357.

Citizens, equal rights of, 351.

Civil government : necessity of, 120, 121; temporal in scope, 121;
not omniscient or omnipotent, 124; authoritative, 125; re-
ligion not its end, 126; divine right of, 174; the result of
human forces, 176–178.

Civil institutions and the Bible, 365.

Civil oath defined, 290; the requirement of, 291; provisions in
regard to, 292, 293; the law of New York, 294; its govern-
mental use, 294-298; false inference from, 298–300.

Civil tribunals and the Church, 358.

Conclusion, the, 376.

Congressional chaplains, 301.

Conscience: meaning of, 155; its facts personal, 156; of the pri-

vate citizen, 157; of legal officers, 158.

Conscience plea, 95-97.

Constitution of the United States, no religion in it, 153.

Constitutional rights of conscience: in State constitutions, 247-

255; the doctrine analyzed, 255-259.

Demand of some Protestants, 39.

Dissenters, toleration of, 70.

Distribution of school funds, 45.

Doctrine proved, 384.

Education by the State, 36; secular, 55; quantity of, 57; moral,
58; not complete, 61; secular education not anti-religious, 64.

Federal laws in regard to Sunday, 277.

Fragmentary thoughts, 363.

General argument, its topics, 376.

Godless schools, 63.

Golden rule, 94.

Governmental jurisdiction: definition of, 99; general practice,
100; religion beyond it, 101-103.

Grant, President, his recommendations, 19, 20; comment on,

20-22.

Guaranty of religious liberty: none as against State power, 223–
225; reasons for it, 226-233; form of an amendment for, 234.

235.

Interlopers, who they are, 371.

Law of religious societies, 347; meaning of, 348; general princi-

ples of, 348-360; the policy of, 361, 362.

Limitation of the majority, 169.

Macaulay on civil government, 178.

Madison's view, 130.

Maine, Supreme Court of, its language, 54.

Majority conscience, 164; logical examples of, 167, 168.

Majority rule, 194.

Mann, Horace, his view, 109.

Miller, Rev. John, his view, 36

Morality in the large sense, 60.

Morality of the Bible without its doctrines, 367.

National and State chaplains, 301.

National Constitution: principles of, 202-205; oaths provided for,

205-207; religious tests excluded, 207, 209.

Naturalized citizens, 371.

Navy chaplains, 303.

Neutrality of the State, 52.

New political programme, 15.

New York, its Sunday law, 279, 280.

Parties, Republican and Democratic, 23.

People, their authority, 183-185.

Police power of the State, 320.

Political value of religion: Judge Hagans and Dr. Seelye on, 132-

134; their theory contrary to that of Christ, 135, 140; it de-
stroys itself, 135; perils of, 137; the voice of history, 138.
"Powers that be," Paul's language explained, 181, 182.
Preambles to State constitutions: God acknowledged, 333-337;
comment on, 337-345; conclusion from, 345, 346.

Preston, Rev. Thomas S., his view, 33.

Prison chaplains, 306.

Profane swearing: the law of England, 319; the law of New York,

321.

Protestants: sects of and their character, 34; united against Catho-
lics, 35; three classes of, 36; what some of them demand, 50.

Protestant country, 370.

Public school: function of, 56; an instrument of the State, 61; a
civil institution, 77.

Puritan Fathers, 369.

Religion, voluntary, 104.

Religious amendment of the Constitution: form of, 213; of no

legal effect, 214–216; would have no authoritative expounder,
217, 218; would be of no service, 219; the process of, 222.
Religious liberty limits of, 105; its protection by the State, 106.
Religious meum and tuum, 42.

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Religious societies, civil corporations, 353.

Religious teaching by the State, 66; conditions of, 68-70; princi-
ple involved, 73; consequence of, 75.

Rights in the public school, 43.

Roman Catholics, 24; their theory of education, 25, 26; reason
and necessity of, 27, 28; answer to, 30, 31; what they want, 32.
Rulers not inspired or infallible, 179.

Sabbath legislation, 276; judicial decisions in regard to, 280-285;
theory of, 285-287.

School districts, 48, 49.

School problem, 44.

School virtues, useful, 58.

Secularists as to the public schools, 38.

Seventh Day Baptists, 287.

Special argument, 379.

State conscience toward God, 154-164.

State constitutions: their purpose as to religion, 236; exceptiona.
clauses, 236-239; their protective provisions, 240-244; Judge
Cooley's summary, 244; Pomeroy's statement, 245, 246.

State, definition of, 143, 144.

State personality, 142; a fiction, 144-146.

State theology: meaning of, 110; sequel of, III; its specific
character, III; dissenters from, 113; persecuting, 114; not
useful, 115.