Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-06-17 | Page 3 | Rulers by Divine Right

holer kiy charlemagne was the first great ruler who proclaimed himself kins and emperor by divine right he did not ablog that the divine right lad como to him irom heaven but based his claim on the tact that bishop of home then the spiritual ruler of christian world had anointed lilai and placed the crown of the empire on his head the tarsa del craela by divine right or t the grace of god was thus to express the right to rule as coming the head ot the church uniel abo days ot luther and the betor matton then tho power of the church was so shaken that rulers no longer felt sure that they ronld rest anchal fensod 03 their right to rule as alren to them bj inome 0 o the term by divine right became construed us meaning that the klass ailed by right ot goda will as expressed in the old testament in which god la recorded as having chosen bansa himself to rule the pc opec nc