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.