Article November 14, 1964 Issue

Signs of the Times

Daniel L. Marsh

Dr. Daniel L. Marsh Chancellor of Boston University in an address in Marsh Chapel Boston, Massachusetts

The Founding Fathers of our Republic ... knew that the foundation of a representative democracy had been laid in the Judaic and Christian Scriptures, the Holy Bible. This is especially true with respect to the New Testament in general and to the teaching of Jesus in particular. Let me name five principles enunciated by the Saviour which are indispensable to any democratic form of government: liberty, ... the dignity of the individual, ... the essential spiritual equality of all human beings, ... brotherhood as interpreted by the Golden Rule, service as the standard of greatness. ...

History had taught the Founding Fathers that there must never be domination of the Church by the State, nor of the State by the Church. ...

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