one of Church politics--in doctrine and ritual the "Protestant
Episcopal Church of America" remained in every way Anglican. The
little children of our free republic are taught the same
slave-catechism, "to order myself lowly and reverently to all my
betters." The only difference is that instead of being told "to honour
and obey the King," they are told "to honour and obey the civil
authority."

It is the Church of Good Society in England, and it is the same in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charleston.
Just as our ruling classes have provided themselves with imitation
English schools and imitation English manners and imitation English
clothes--so in their Heaven they have provided an imitation English
monarch. I wonder how many Americans realize the treason to democracy
they are committing when they allow their children to be taught a
symbolism and liturgy based upon absolutist ideas. I take up the
hymn-book--not the English, but the sturdy, independent, democratic
American hymn-book. I have not opened it for twenty years, yet the
greater part of its contents is as familiar to me as the syllables of
my own name. I read:

Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore Thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim bowing down before Thee,
Which wert, and art, and ever more shall be!

One might quote a hundred other hymns made thus out of royal imagery.
I turn at random to the part headed "General," and find that there is
hardly one hymn in which there is not "king," "throne," or some image
of homage and flattery. The first hymn begins--