There are peculiar notions extant in relation to the propriety or impropriety of mixing religion with politics, many of which we consider to be wild and visionary. . . .

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Either God has something to do in our national affairs, or he has not. If he has the oversight and charge of them, if "he raises up one king and puts down another, according to the counsel of his own will;" if "the powers that be are ordained of God;" then it becomes necessary for us, in all our political movements, to look to God for for his benediction and blessing. But if God has nothing to do with them, we will act consistently, we will cease to pray for our president, our legislators, or any of our rulers, and each one will pursue his own course and "God shall not be in all our thoughts," so far as politics are concerned.

By a careful perusal of the scriptures. however, we shall find that God in ancient days had as much to do with governments, kings and kingdoms, as he ever had to do with religion.

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Certainly if any person ought to interfere in political matters it should be those whose minds and judgments are influenced by correct principles--religious as well as political; otherwise those persons professing religion would have to be governed by those who have no professions; be subjects to their rule; have the law and word of God trampled under food, and become as wicked as Sodom and as corrupt as Gomorrah, and be prepared for final destruction.