pr THE EVENING GAZETTE umREn AT THE POSTZOFFICE, In. NORWALK as .A NEWSPAPER. H1411} SUBSCRIPTIONS, DAILY, one'year. $3; sixfmonths, $1.75: three months. $1.00; one month, 300. WEEKLY, one year. in advance.‘, $1.00; six months. 60c.: three months, So. . ,f MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1897. THE WEATHER—Today, fair, followed by possible snow at night, with slightly rising temperature. King Charles the Martyr. ' Editor of the GAZETTnz—On Satur- ' day your paper published an editorial. . mldly criticising the fact a New York church at this late period, should a commemorative service in honor of "‘King Charles the Martyr.” Should it not be borne in mind that many quite cruel and unlovely things were enacted in the days of Charles in the‘ name of religion and was he not at least faithful to his own estimate, of the value of the church of England and so deserving its homage? . CHURCBMAN. We are so accustomed to regard Eng- lish history from the modern American standpoint, and ecclesiastical history in particular from a New England point of view, that the idea of doing formal reverence to the memory of King Charles strikes most Americans as ridiculous. Charles represents to us only a now abandoned doctrine of royalty, and we think of hisLdaath as a probably unneceaeary but not illogical event in the political evolution of his time, regretable in modern eyes, but not more so than the countless execu- tions or murders that marked the grad- ual passage from mediaeval to modern institutions. ' It is difficult to determine the relative importance of political and religious impulses in the seventeenth century, and it is quite impossible! to separate them. There , were Churchmen who were against the king and there were Presbyterians who were not with the Parliament, but as the war went on it took more and more a religious—or at least an ecclesiastical—character, until the success of the Parliament came to mean the extermination of the Church Of England. The bishops were dis- lilaCLd and the Primate put to death, the cathedral revenues confiscated, the clergy who would not sign the Cove- nant were (jected, and the use of the Prayer Book was made a penal cfi‘ense. Some historians blame Charles for entangling the safety of the Church “with the cause of the Crown; others honor him for making the Church’s cause his own; as a matter of fact they did become identified, and among those who rallied to the cavalier’s cry of “Church and King" there were many who cared more for the former than for the latter. This is evidently why the Church of England at the Restoration, appointed a special service to be said on the anni- wrsary of the‘death of Charles in com- memoration of the royal .martyr. Oharles’ theory of the royal preroga- tive Was never practically re-established and it perished in the Revolution; but the historic continuity of the Church had been maintained. A very recent historian, Mr. Button, in the fourth volume of “Social England,” writes: Through these bitter years, from the raising 'of his standard to his own death, Charles, among all his fluctua- Stone, stood fast by the essentials of an lIIstoric Church. AL Uxbridge, at New- port, at Newcastle, he agreed to conces- sions; even to the establishment of Pres-' llyterianism for five years, but to the abolition of bishops he could never yield. lie dreaded the severing of the Church from the State and that meant to him , the crown—but he has so learnt from Laud a more honorable and consistent principle. “It would be no less a change than a Popery,” he said “and let my condition be never so low. and I resolve, by the grace of God, never to yield up this Church to the government G: Papists, Presbyterians or Independ- ezs.” It was for this determination, as much as for any political reason, that In: died; and his death, like Land’s I-mde certain the eventual triumph of the Church. As the world has grown continually farther away from the political concep- tions of the Stuarts, the commemora- taon of King Charles the Martyr has naturally fallen into disuse, and its re- cent attempted revival seems partly archaeological and partly sentimental, and not likely to command a very large amount of sympathy anywhere. It very obvioulsy, however, relates to the unquestionable fact that Charles whose ' .personalpurity'even his enemies hon- ored, was really in 4 a. distinct sense a martyr to the faith as he held it and as it has been continuously heid .in the 9 . .THE A v as IN G GAZETTE m Anglican cemmunion; .so that it is pos- sible to understand, in these days of religious activity, an ecclesiastical com- memoration of this martyrdom that can have no reference to its place in politi- cal history. Yet politics and religion were so inextricably mingled in the history of the Stuarts, that this inter- esting function Will be generally re- garded as a harmless but archaic fad. 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