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Title: The Christian Foundation, February, 1880

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION, FEBRUARY, 1880***

The Christian Foundation,

Or,

Scientific and Religious Journal

Vol. 1. No 2.

February, 1880.

CONTENTS

The Influence Of The Bible Upon Civil And Religious Liberty.
Liberty Of Conscience.
The Orthodoxy Of Atheism And Ingersolism, By Rev. S. L. Tyrrell.
The Shasters And Vedas, And The Chinese, Government, Religion, Etc.
Ancient Cosmogonies.
Some Of The Beauties (?) Of Harmony Among Unbelievers.
Is God The Author Of Deception And Falsehood?
Darwinism Weighed In The Balances.
Was It Possible?

THE INFLUENCE OF THE BIBLE UPON CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

Civil government is a state of society in which men are reduced to order;
it is a government in which every citizen has full power over his own
rights, but is not at liberty to infringe upon the rights of others. The
deepest thought in the word _civil_ is the idea of being hedged around by
restraints, so as to be shut in from all privilege, or right, of meddling
with the rights of others. The Welsh use the word "cau," to shut, inclose,
fence, hedge.

Civil liberty is liberty modified by the rights of others. No man has a
right, by any Divine warrant, to infringe upon the rights of another; and
cannot do it without forfeiting more or less of his own. This thought,
that a man may forfeit his rights, is as essential to proper conceptions
of civil government, and civil liberty, as the thought that a man has
rights; for if there be no forfeiture of rights through crime, then all
legal punishments are without foundation in justice; even the right of
self-defense, individually and nationally, ceases to exist. And if this be
taken away, all support and strength in civil government is gone; anarchy
and ruin only may