Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

RECONSTRUCTING THE NATURAL ORDER 409politics: and crime is not less crime because it iswilled by a nation. The nation is as responsible asthe man. A parliament which enacts an immolaw is as guilty as a man who commits murdThe establishment of an universal Church made thisprinciple visible to men, and it is one of the greatestboons which that Church has conferred on humansociety. But it was symbolised and expressed mostpowerfully in the position which the First Bishopand Primate of the Church possesses as the CommonFather of all, equally near to all, equally interestedr all. The successor of St. Peter in his office wathe Council of Nice, as he is now, as near to thmen of Antioch and Egypt as to the men of GauSpain, Britain, and Germany. And when the timto which I have above alluded had come, when thmperial unity of Kome had been broken, the spirity of Rome shone out clearly to the eyes of mThen the sovereigns ofdiff