Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-08-10
STANDARDS.

When the fathers fixed the foundations
law of the Bible, they accepted doctrines
above sects and parties out OF the rule OF
controversies. They were not dealing with
problems to be shuffled and controverted,
either by statesmen OR doctors of divinity,
or by any other class OF men. They took
hold OF axioms. Those truths which God
had established and made rs clear as the
sun in the heavens. They said, ave hold
these truths to be sef-evident that all
men are born free and equal, endowed with
certain inalienable rights, among which
are life, liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
ness" These were not mere casual deduc-
tions from the divine law-"to love God
with all the heart, and our neighbor as
ourself." They were these truths which
we're embodied in and grew out of this one
great central, social law, which binds all
parties, high and low, rich and poor, in a
bond not to be sighted or broken, to re-
spect each of these rights, and to honor
God, who had right to be supreme and
to make all men equal before the law.
This is the one and only arrangement that
could insure social order, obedience to God,
and ,ace to man. Mans salvation, polit-
ically, depends on the observance of these
self-evident truths. Let this order be
broken or inverted, or changed in any way,
as it is now and has been in the past CEN
turtles, and we see the results. Ii men are
created unequal, one is to be master and
the other servant. Who will decide the
controversy? Which is the greatest? The
one who has the stoutest arm, or the most
brains, or the biggest pile? Which? The
Pope says it is a." who am constituted er
otfcio Gods vice-gerent on earth. The Car
says it is a." by sovereign right The
king says it is 81" by birth. The Metho'
dist says it is 81" for see my converts. The
demagogue says it is a." for the voice oI
the people is the voice of God. SO the wal
deepens and deluges the earth in brothers
blood-and brains, and nr ms, and cash ar,
i'm a heap. And still the controy ersy deep
ems and hlond aows, But whu Is right
Somebody is responsible for permitting
these damnable hereses to crenpi in. Let u
cut off these protuberant heads and return
, to political postulates-"a church withou
II bishop and State without kIng"-nC
king but God, and no bishop but the anoint
ed Savior; all men on the same footing
PROSTATE before God Supreme, and no one
between God and man but Jesus Christ
. His Son, as an availing inlercessor anC
I redeemer. The departments of State con
sist primarily OF teachers and executors
The former includes the church and al
primary schools and colleges, or univertie
, and families the latter includes officers o
law and all kinds of laborers. Each o
these departments are servants Of and Ootl
, together constitute the State. The churcl
is not above the State, nor an equal unitet
with the State, nor q separate interio
, body within the State, but one OF the ser
wants OF the State, subject to its control
like all other classes and bodies OF men
, The head OF the State is the people, e
, ,nasse, and the head of the people is God
, Supreme over all The greatest men il
, the State nre its best servants, each in hi
own department, occupying different de
partments as II division of labor TO secnr
order and promote the common welfare
, The President stands on an equal footin
: with other servants Of the States.
Pho. .PATRIA.