Seelye, Julius H. The Christian Element in the State: A Sermon delivered before the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, January 5, 1870. Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1870. First Edition. [10964]
Removed, wrappers retained, newly strung, 9 x 5 /4 inches, 34 clean pages, small marginal tear to the fore-edge throughout. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is Luke 9: 30, 31, "And behold there talked with Him two men, which were Moses and Elias: who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem."
A sermon on the church and the state.
"Do we not discover thus how ill-judged would be any attempt to separate the state from the church, or the secular from the religious sphere of life? The truly enlightened state, the free and progressive state, finds its light and liberty and life only from the church." - p. 17.
Julius Hawley Seelye (1824-1895), b.Bethel, Connecticut; educated at Amherst College, Auburn Theological Seminary, and at Halle, Germany. He was ordained a Dutch Reformed minister in 1853, and was pastor that congregation at Schenectady, New York. He became a faculty member and president in Amherst College, serving that institution for 32 years. He published several books on Christian missions, theology, philosophy, and American civil government. He was a member of several boards, including the ABCFM, Mt. Holyoke College, and the Congregational Home Missionary Society.
