Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — Christianity and National Life [ARTICLE]

Christianity and National Life

In a contribution to the Contemporary Review. of London, Sir W. M. Ramsay makes the contention that a nation cannot live without some real and profound hold on the supernatural, illustrating his argument by reference to the Pauline theology and the Roman Empire. He reasons that, while the Christianity of Paul was crushed for the time being by the decrees of the Roman emperors, this policy of repression and massacre proved the destruction of the empire, while the religious principles which had been so bitterly antagonized became important factors in the political life as soon as freedom of thought and action began to spread over Europe. _