It has been claimed by some, not from disinterested motives, that the whole Protestant movement is in the direction of anarchy, that it both began and persists in a rebellion against law. This is based only upon the assumption that the church from which many revolted was invested with supreme authority. Such an assumption itself creates anarchy more than the denial of it. It degrades law by making a human organization its giver and exponent rather than the divine Being. There is no anarchy in getting away from a lesser authority to a higher, or from a merely claimed to a real authority, from man to God, from the edict of a council or a priest to the direct Word of the living God. The anarchy is in the repudiation of the higher. Therefore it is that, as a matter of fact, lawlessness has always prevailed more in Romanized lands, along with the other evils of illiteracy, concubinage, illegitimacy, and the like, than in Protestant lands. Enthrone the Bible, and the Creator rather than the creature is adored. Take away the Bible, whether by the priestly denial of it to the people or by the processes of minimizing its supernaturalism and inspiration and divine authority, and you take away the very palladium of law and liberty.—The Presbyterian of the South, May 29, 1912.