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agriculture, business, commerce, industry, education, any, even of the church itself.

Here is offered the possibility of a true spiritual union of church and state in the work of education, which would have all the advantages, and none of the disadvantages, of that political union which is opposed alike to the judgment and feelings of the American people.

VII. CONCLUSIONS

Since the state university is the university of all the people, and is a great civic institution to train citizens for actual life, it is hoped that churches will co-operate heartily with it. They support it with their 'taxes. There is no such thing as Methodist political economy, Baptist mathematics, Congregational physics, or Presbyterian chemistry. The future workers of the church must also be citizens of the state. The religious man must also be the civic man. Cannot these two systems of training, the religious and the civic, be harmoniously co-ordinated by the simple process of friendly co-operation between denominational college and state university? Such co-operation has within itself the potentialities of magnificent fruition. It is the movement of the future, and, as such, deserves our interest, our sympathy, and our support.