ABSTRACT
The cry, Disendow the Church is that which lends most vigor to the attack on tho Establishment, and tho fear of disendowment is that which causes the chief bitterness of the defence. Argument for disendowment is regarded as an attack on property, and is resisted with all the anger which is apt to be shown when property is touched. An added cause of wrath is that tho property is supposed to have some special kind of sacredness, and the proposal to disendow the Church is not only a proposal of robbery but one of sacrilege. The author's contention will be that tho State has set aside certain revenues, raised by taxation, to pay certain officials for the purpose of performing certain duties and that if tho State chooses to suppress its ecclesiastical department, and assign the portion of its revenues hitherto expended in it to other uses, it is acting within its admitted rights.
