THE mayor of Philadelphia is conducting a reform campaign in municipal affairs, and is seeking to enforce obedience to State laws and city ordinances. An experience in this campaign is thus described by one of our exchanges:— At this writing (June 10), the very latest act of the new administration in the interest of public morals is the suppression of a raffle or lottery conducted by a Roman Catholic church, in which a dwelling-house worth twenty-five hundred dollars was to be disposed of by lot, the tickets for the drawing being sold for twenty-five cents. The proceeds were to be devoted to a parochial school. The new director of public safety forbade the drawing and the sale of tickets for it, said that churches ought to uphold the laws and not transgress them, and announced that he would suppress all similar enterprises by whomsoever promoted. What a spectacle is this! The municipal officers of a notoriously corrupt city being compelled to restrain a professed church of Christ from breaking the law against gambling! A director of public safety warning all the churches that they will not be permitted to conduct lotteries! Under these circumstances how much respect can the officers of the law be expected to entertain for these lawless churches? All this, however, is only the legitimate result of that spirit of lawlessness which reveals itself in thinking to change God’s law and in substituting the precepts of men for the commandments of God. Those who refuse to acknowledge their obligation to obey the law of God do, by this very act, destroy all foundation for respect for the laws of men, and do themselves become promoters of lawlessness. Truly “Babylon is fallen, is fallen.”