The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-05-31
The State-Its Origin and Its Duties.
Extracts from q sermon preached by DR.. Nc
Surely at the Presbyterian Church, Of Hills
boro, May ~, to members Of the G. A. r.
and Sons of Veterans.

Surely at the Presbyterian Church, Of Hills
boro May ~, to members Of the G.. A. r.
and Sons of Veterans.
We have had much alarm over An.
archy and Anarchist clubs. Those dyn-
amite bombs thrown in Chicago shook
the whole land. We shudder to think
that instead of reign of law, we may
have reign of lawlessness. And so we
cry, Down with the Anarchist! We all
sympathize with this cry. AS good citi-
zens and as Christian men and women
We must. But let us be sure that our
vision is clear. What is Anarchy? 1t
is the attempt to break down law, and
it does not matter whether the attempt
be made secretly or openly. The An
archist is the law.breaker. If he breaks
the law secretly, he is the Anarchist in
hiding; if he breaks it openly, he is the
Anarchist defiant. He may not be pro.
fessedly, or even consciously, an Anarch.
list, yet in spirit and behavior he is one.
We have many Anarchist schools. Sa-
looms have been such in all their history.
They either defy law or connive at at its
violation. And drinking clubs are not
one whit better. And the same may
rightly be said of all these gambling
shops under their different DISCUSSES and
names. And so prevalent and reckless
has this spirit of Anarchy become that
IN dof noo ~ In ~, ~, ~, ,-,;,l ,olI A.
at the polls, and some men who are re-
garded as honest and patriotic and
Christian will buy them. 1t is notorious
that candidates must furnish large mon.
ey, and the active politicians handle
money, and in every community there
are men, sometimes counted by the scores
or the hundreds, who stand in the market
to be bought. Soldiers of the army of
the Union, shall it be that this Nation,
in whose behalf you put your lives in
jeopardy and for which so many brave
men died, must yet be wrecked upon a
corrupt ballot box? Wrecked through
the lawlessness of men who call them
selves patriots?
And what shall we say of newspapers
that jeer at law and encourage men to
violate it? Simply that they are help.
ing the school of the Anarchist. They
are furnishing it with literature and en-
couragement. And policemen who wink
at the violations of law, and courts that
contrive ways by which law-breakers
may escape, and people who make jest
of it all, these are all helpers OF the An
archist.
Let us look at this matter Of our duty
to the State in the light of Gods word.
"Let every soul" Tor person) "be in sub.
lection to the higher powers;" that is.
to the State. And the reason for this is
found in the fact that God has ordained
the State; He has established it for the
welfare OF men, and for His own glory
and for men to endeavor to break it
down is to strike against the Most High.
Therefore, he that resisteth the power"
Tor the State, or law "withstandeth the
ordinance" Tor arrangement) "of God;
and they that Withstand shall receive to
themselves judgment" We 80 often
consider the State with reference to per-
sonal or partisan ends. Let US lift up
the matter OF obedience to it to the plane
of regard for the ordinance OF God. And
let rs remind ourselves that judgment
waits upon what we call political dis
honesty, just a. certainly ~ it does upon
any other form Of dishonesty.
The State also owes to the citisen the
honest and vigorous enforcement Of law.