New law
Should God be with us, as I think He must certainly be if we have not parted from his company, we will be in that happy state promised to the prophet, Isaiah: “When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, … and when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt.” That God is speaking of His Church, even in Old Testament times, is the Christian interpretation (for Christians have always been very Jewish in this, for their Church has pre-existed); but also we understand the promise literally, and mystically, and having political implications. And it is repeated, by Christ, when He comes down from Heaven:
“My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
The simplicity of this has been confusing to many. We think that God must be doing something, with His creatures, that a performance is necessary when they are helped. And when He doesn’t do anything, or anything visible and audible to us, the atheists come forward, telling us to disbelieve. (Now, disbelief is doing something. It creates something to replace faith.) This is the curious truth: that faith requires no action, whereas it is only bad faith that requires the complications.
All of our foolish reforms required action, and will continue to summon our squalid efforts, until we abandon them and they disappear. This is why monarchy, and not democracy, can come actually to approach to godly ways. A good king does not do anything at all, beyond following the law he has inherited, and the ceremonies that go with them, unless he is compelled to act by “events.” (War destroys peace, for instance.) But these will not involve reforms of any sort, just restorations. His majesty the king should not be compelled easily. The law in any sound kingdom is an ancient law, founded in divine justice, then tried and tested through many generations. Only the world’s vicious idiots are campaigning to write new laws.