Not a great many years ago, in Prussia, of which we hear so much upon the "educational question," by command of the king, the "Prussian Calvinist and Lutheran, who had quarrelled for three hundred years about the real presence and predestination, abandoned their disputes, denied their faith, and became members of the 'Evangelical Church of Prussia'"--a church whose simple creed is thus stated: "Do ye believe in God? then must ye believe in Christ. Do ye believe in Christ? then must ye believe in the king. He is our head on earth, and rules by the order of God. The king has appeared in the flesh in our native land!" This was a state religion--a union of church and state, and is about as likely to be established here as that the "Document No. 4" is to be adopted as a text-book in our public schools. This union of church and state is about as sensible a cry, and quite as malignant, as the old "No Jews, no wooden shoes!" addressed to the mob in England, and is framed and uttered in the spirit of the same "sectarian" and bigoted hate. Now, one word as to "secular education"--there is no such thing, if God's work is our work. If his glory requires the dedication of all the powers he has given us, it is preposterous to talk about an education from which he and his existence, and the knowledge of him and his purposes and laws, are excluded. We may endow, and send our children to colleges where no priest or clergyman shall ever come, and no creed shall be taught or even mentioned, and call the education there received secular and unsectarian, as was intended to be done at the "Girard College" at Philadelphia, and yet we shall find the education unsatisfactory, and no "state" has yet adopted the plan. In conclusion, we demand, in the language of the resolutions "unanimously adopted" and appended to the report in "Document No. 4," "... free of cost, to every child in the state, a generous and tolerant education--such an education as qualifies him for the duties of citizenship"; and, moreover, such an education as shall recognize and protect the first and most important of all the _rights_ of citizenship--the right of conscience, which is grossly violated by the system of atheistical education. CHURCH POSTURES. Ye would not sit at ease while meek men kneel Did ye but see His face shine through the veil, And the unearthly forms that round you steal Hidden in beauteous light, splendent or pale As the rich Service leads. And prostrate faith Shroudeth her timorous eye, while through the air Hovers and hangs the Spirit's cleansing Breath In Whitsun shapes o'er each true worshipper. Deep wreaths of angels, burning from the east, Around the consecrated Shrine are traced, The awful Stone where by fit hands are placed The Flesh and Blood of the tremendous Feast, But kneel--the priest upon the altar-stair Will bring a blessing out of Sion there.