, 1873-03-24
An Episcopalinn Remedy for
the Evils Of the Day.
Lecture by the Rev. j. 4. Walker,
OF Calvary Church..

Bishop Whitohouse, for tho bouolt Of tho South
Side people. For ha original proposition tho
lectnrer took tho ground that 1.-TWO great an
tngoniBtio forcea, Authority and lnatvidun1ism,
coaHoloss1y wrestlo with each othor upon tho
aroma OF timo. and tho varying fortunoa Of tho
struggle constitute lumnn history, in which In
stitutons represent Authority; revolutions,
lntlyidualism." Ho characterized individual
ism as tho highest product Of human
eolf-consoiouenoas. upon which authority muat
thrust fteolf as an nlroady-oxisting power, por-
eonality higher than man-God. Tho Church
mud tho stato are only tho two groat forms unfcr
which authority nntngonizoa viii, humnn indi-
vidualtsn,. Evory nation, said the lecturer,
paRsos through TINT phaHo Of its tiatory In which
tho functions Of priest mud civil governor arc both
veatod In tho poraon Of tho patriarch Of family
Tho Old Testament history Of the Hebrews was
citod as showing tho origin OF tho conception Of
duty toward God and tho State, botween
which thbro was then no line of domaroatiou.
Tho r,ldimontary germs Of worship md OF ma
tionolity wore combined for tho frat half-thou-
sand years Of thoir varying fortunes, gradually
developing tho cardinal virtue Of their worship
distinctly from Egyptian idolatry. Moses forced
upon thom d law written on two tablos. Tho lrst
four commandments doal with worship, tho
remaining six havo to do with the formB Of 3D.
ciety. It is hore that d Church and State mako
thoir appearance sido by bIde having q common
origin, whether 1t bo human or divine. Religion
Ia tho mother OF both tho Church aud Of tho
State, and they aro twin sisters tue two great
voicoa Of human duty. Ono cannot oxiBt with
usnioua connection commonly understood BY
N..s',s', :. "ristiug between tho Church and
-. :::t*f'. :: ''''' VII. was US into1orablo aa
:: h",.:',-s: i'd urgo that tho State rocog-
n fh,7 to&&
'.:,- god obligations to the State,
- :'.,*: :; Il, Church, Charged that e Chris o
T. FL ''.' a'.,..s ;ho Slyil laEs TeeognI5ing tho
-. gots tho stato, hnd novor lifts
.-,. ~ :. ion againat hor. Obodiouco to
-. -. - :. 'istaught in tho cateclliBm, and.
boforo Buy nything tor hcrsolf, the Church.
a eoo oq avpeF a pF'yy conspiracy md ro'0
And what roturn doos tho Btato render for all
this generous and constant fealty of the Churcl7
snatching. her own table Of the Binaitio codo,
violently disrupting 1t from Its organic ro!atiopa
to tnat Of tho Church, sho rosiros sullonly into
corner and eots up for heraolf-ignores tho
ChurcIl--rofuses to Vindicate tho sanctlty Of tho
sabbath-leta lnwlosH mobs parade tho streets Of
our citics on tho Ohucrh's day Of worship, font
Ing oaths and obsccnity " the faces of thoao who
lie ffisioa.%" %a,.A1 ''''' 1A' ''A'' An'"' Ao To-
Wllat II tho Church should say, to-day: 'Tho
Church knows no civil goyornmeut2" ?" Whore,
to-morrow, would there. be o civil government
day tho conserving grace that insureB tho State
from momontnry d}slntcgraton7 Is it from tho
nmterial out Of which whiaky-ringa aro organ
izod, or gambling -lclls suatained2 Ia 1t from
Continental Reformation gone to seed in Ger
man Rationaliem has eaton tho last vestiges Of
religious faith2
Tho State knows full we'll, by an increasing
bitter experience In court. roform-school, aud
prison, that these arc her dangerous classes, at
whose hands her very existence Is momentnrily
imperiled; and that tho forces upon whoHe
healthtul action hcrporpetuity and eafety depend
aro to bo found among those whose social orders
md civil allegiance arc backed and sustained by
q definite and positive religious faith, embodied
and enforced by tho Church.
It is dangerous experiment the State fB at-
tempting In this age, and especially. IN this
eonqntfymhe eoq g. experiment Of ,iToreing hor
tho necessary dependence Of morality the State
demands upon tho religion tho Church teaches.
All history conol1rs ir tho declaration TINT such
experimental must fail. Tho political solidarity
noaa Of it's religious faith. For nearly eight cen
tnrios Roman roligion and law maintained tho
closest bouds of union. s'To Romans tho
founder Of tho nation was q deity . !. and
WAS tho inspiring battlo-ory that had made their
legiona victorious throughout tho civilized
world. nomo's Standardization began with tho
decline Of the popular faith in tho national re-
ligion, and today her history sends across the
centuries tho solomn warning that q nation that
Inns no altara will soon have no loarth-stones /;
that pooplo that ignores tho Church will soon
haye no State. And VIC, In this community, are
wo not al1oady ontoring tho ponu1nbra OF this
second table Of tho slnaitic code Las ever
been confcaaol by tho, .ableBt statesmen OF tho
civilized world, to bo tho great Bill of Rights,
which In tho interest Of humanity oil civil gov
ernrnents llnye endeavored to sanction and on-
ground oil every one Of the moralities Of tliB
table. Our great cities ara rapidly boing vandal-
lied, and the country at large demoralized. Cor
ruptlon and bribery sis in sonate-cha1abera on
wool-Haok; drinkenneBs reols, adultory flaunsH,
robbery prowls, and tho do1non Of murder, In
spoakable and unspoakablo forms, raves
among all strata Of society, from Fifth ayenneu
to Wator streetB, defying or buying up law as
idly approaching crisis II requires little etia-
cern1nont to forosoo, whore IN enforced morality
will simply bocomo longer impossible, law q
dorBlon, and the State failure.
the fact that tue modern and especially
our American State, Inns mado two fun
damental mistakes In tho business OF civil gov
ernment. The first Is, that Bhe has divorced
what God in the history Of tho world has joined
together. Aside from all question Of the super
natural origin Of tho Ginaitio code it's two tables
como upon the field OF history together. In
their application to the developing moods Of hu-
! man society, they fell by common consent into
tholr respective places, as onch tho cNarter and
organic law Of an outward and Visible institu-
tion,--tho first, Of the Church, tho second, OF
the State. Thoso plaoea they have held In the
faith and thought Of the best civilizations Of tho
raco for 1000 years. Side by side the Church
| aud tho State hare come down through tho CEN
turioa, recognizing their simultaneous nativity
and their mutual relations Of interest and do
pondcnco. But tho modern 6tate has con,-
mittel tho blunder-theo crime against lltstory-of
ignoring those relations to which all
history has witnessed, aud expecting to
enforce, Us State, tho Bystom OF
moral duties to our follows, aot forth In tho
second table, In violent disruption from, and III
dependence OF, the System Of spiritual duties 10
God, aud tntL In tho first, nntl represented by a
church. This noyeroau bo dono. Ithas boen as true
Of all nations as ofthoBe which have Inherited tho
two tablos Of the sinaitic code, that national
morality has only beon possible by the sido OF
| o national religion, For systom OF moral