Excerpt from The Wake Forest Student, Vol. 27: September, 1907 The effort to establish a State church, beginning about 1701, seemed altogether evil, but under the Providence of God it served to awaken the people and teach the necessity and power of co-operation. It inaugurated a conflict which broadened into a struggle for both civil and religious liberty, marked at times by the wager of battle, and nearly all the time by political artifice and cunning. Through it all the different schools of religious and political thought became more and more unified and compact in co-operation and organization, and drew to gether as units of the great body that contended for these mighty principles which could find no abiding place under the rule of king or bigot, and finallv asserted them selves in our glorious Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.