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The City Without A Church

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I Saw the City - His Servants Shall Serve - I Saw No Temple There - Contents

family and outside the State, man has need of the Church ... Civil society, whether it calls itself a commune, a canton, or a province, a state, or fatherland, has many duties towards the improvement of the individual: but what it does is necessarily limited. The family ought to do much more, but often it is insufficient: sometimes it is wanting altogether. The association created in the name of moral principle can alone give to every man coming into this world a bond which unites him with the past, duties as to the future, examples to follow, a heritage to receive and to transmit, and a tradition of devotion to continue." Apart altogether from the quality of its contribution to society, in the mere quantity of the work it turns out it stands alone. Even for social purposes the Church is by far the greatest Employment

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