---
title: 'Our New Possessions — What Shall We Make Them?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'David Burt Willson'
date: 1900-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church-State Relations'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Exodus 18'
- 'Acts 17'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/willson-1900-our-new-possessions-what-shall-we-make-them
---

# Our New Possessions — What Shall We Make Them?

Examines church–state relations amid U.S. expansion: the church should guide on marriage, morals, education and missions in new territories, yet warns against a harmful church-state union.

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