of non-resistance. All church preachers recognize cases in which that command can be broken, and teach the people accordingly.

And they not only do not teach teat we should avoid temptations to break it, chief of which is the military oath, but they themselves administer it. The preachers of the Church never in any other case advocate the breaking of any other commandment. But in connection with the commandment of non-resistance they openly teach that we must not understand it too literally, but that there are conditions and circumstances in which we must do the direct opposite, that is, go to law, fight, punish. So that occasions for fulfiling the commandment of non-resistance to evil by force are taught for the most part as occasions for not fulfiling it. The fulfilment of this command, they say, is very difficult and