Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . idea, that the Church, notmerely in its civil relations, but also in itsreligious and disciplinary functions, should bedirectly and completely under the thumb of theState, that is, of any existing ministry and fac-tion. Gradually then an understanding, a play-ing from hand to hand, commenced betweenModeratism, landocracy, and Erastianism, eitherin some way or other to subdue these rampantEvangelicals, or to get their ringleaders ejectedfrom the Church which they were disturbing. Thus it was, briefly and generally, that Chal-mers was stopped in building
Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . idea, that the Church, notmerely in its civil relations, but also in itsreligious and disciplinary functions, should bedirectly and completely under the thumb of theState, that is, of any existing ministry and fac-tion. Gradually then an understanding, a play-ing from hand to hand, commenced betweenModeratism, landocracy, and Erastianism, eitherin some way or other to subdue these rampantEvangelicals, or to get their ringleaders ejectedfrom the Church which they were disturbing. Thus it was, briefly and generally, that Chal-mers was stopped in building his City of God ;that the Church of Scotland was disruptedin the very zenith of her strength and glory,and by those who vaunted themselves in theirday as the pillars of Conservatism. Thus also DISESTABLISHMENT BEGUN. 245 the other EstabHshments of Britain and Ire-land, to whom that of Scotland was such a firmoutlying buttress, were shaken to their fall—which some of them have since experienced,and others seem to be passively
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