Excerpt from On Church and College Establishments
We cannot give full establishment to both these positions now; and we shall therefore, at present, dispense with the former and confine ourselves to the latter of them. It is not that we hold the perfect lawfulness of a religious establishment to be incapable Of demonstration; for we think that the demonstration has already been given. But it is because we conceive the usefulness Of a religi ous establishment, to be a topic of sufficient mag nitude for one preface.
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Thomas Chalmers, was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. He has been called "Scotland's greatest nineteenth-century churchman".
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