THE MILITARY FUNCTIONS OF PRIESTS. 785 



Lastly, let us note that the differentiation of these two 

 functions of fighting enemies and propitiating deities, which 

 were originally joined with headship of the State, has gone 

 furthest in those religious organizations which are separate 

 from the State. Unlike the ministers of the established 

 church, who ordinarily belong to families which furnish 

 military and naval officers, and who, though not actively 

 militant, have their militant sympathies occasionally in 

 dicated by the votes of bishops in the House of Lords, 

 dissenting ministers, derived from classes engaged in one or 

 other form of industrial activity, are the least militant of 

 religious functionaries. 



