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So defined no Church could claim in any true sense the headship of Christ; for it was clearly left at the mercy of the governmental view of expedient conduct.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski asserts that a church defined by governmental expediency cannot genuinely claim to represent the headship of Christ.
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