Excerpt from The Chaplain, Vol. 21: August, 1964 The religious groups of the United States have seen remarkable growth and Vitality in their emphasis upon voluntarism. Coercion by the state and its agencies in the area of religion has seemed alien and repugnant, detrimental to the best interests of both church and state, as well as forbidden by law. 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.