This too is a true
saying, That the _King_ is head of the _Church_.--But we will leave the
Polemic stuff of a dead century to lie quiet on its bookshelves.
Certainly it is a fearful business, that of having your Ableman to _seek_,
and not knowing in what manner to proceed about it! That is the world's
sad predicament in these times of ours. They are times of revolution, and
have long been. The bricklayer with his bricks, no longer heedful of
plummet or the law of gravitation, have toppled, tumbled, and it all
welters as we see! But the beginning of it was not the French Revolution;
that is rather the _end_, we can hope. It were truer to say, the
_beginning_ was three centuries farther back: in the Reformation of
Luther. That the thing which still called itself Christian Church had
become a Falsehood, and brazenly went about pretending to pardon men's sins
for metallic coined money, and to do much else which in the everlasting
truth of Nature it did _not_ now do: here lay the vital malady.
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