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-- Froude was an Erastian, holding that the Church should be subordinate to the State.

True religion is incompatible with persecution.

But true religion is rare, and the best modern security against the persecutor is the secular power.

Mr.Spurgeon once excited great applause from members of his Church by declaring that the Baptists had never persecuted.

When the cheers had subsided he explained that it was because they had never had a chance.