The New York herald., 1872-11-18

The SPirit and Gossip OF Our Religious
Press.
The confagration in Boston is the subject
Of editorial articles in several of our religious
contemporaries. Henry Ward Beecher lin
the Ctristian UnionD presents really pleasant
picture when he says:-
II would be profane TO assume TO read the fua
design OF the Almighty in sending SO terrible =
side which cannot be missed. To those whose dis'
treSS Is for the time overwhelming the Supreme
fact, the one thing eternally sure and changeless,
heart; that with INFINITE tenderness He feels what
ever we suffer; that the great surge OF His love u
under u.s. to it US mysteriousiy even through loss,
The Cunning to politics. thinks
"the democratic party had first rate funeral,
but that it is alive yet and how long it may
last no man knows" The present political
situation, as described by the Union, ~
this:-
The coalition which supported Mr.. Greeley has
been Killed past all revival. The talk Of its profit
ing Dy deieat and going on to final conquest Ike
the republican party after 1856 deceves nocody.
Mr.. Greeley tells the story when. in resuming the
he is not in full accord with either OF the srest
parties which have hitherto divided the couniry.v
and the democratic. The supporters OF Mr. Greeley
constituted no real party animated by unifying
principle, but temporary alliance, broken oy the
The 'Decline of Ministerial Influence" is
also the subject of an able article in this un-
usually interesting number of the Union.
The writer says ''the controversies of past
generations last longer within the walls
Of theological schools than they do any
where else What to the living mind
of our time, is the controversy be-
tween Calvinism and Arminianism, or be-
tween the substitution ami governmental theo-
ries of the Atonement, or the discussion con-
cerning original sin, or Edwards theory of the
will, or the metaphysics of the Trinity? We
do not say that such subjects should be ig-
nored. They should be studied attentively, as
phases in the mental life Of the Church in
on the present. But to make them the chief
subjects Of study, to equip and drill students
with main reference to these is like dressing
soldiers in medieval armor who have got to
face rifed cannon"
The Boston Pilot is reported to us as GER
tainly to appear this week through the enter
prise and pluck of its proprietor, Patrick
Donahoe. The Pilot is one Of the oldest of
Catholic champions in America, and its lead
ing journalistic exponent in New England
The fact of its having been through small
purgatory on earth will, doubtless, make it
still more acceptable to its readers
The Jewish Times discourses upon s'Thas
Irrepressible jew" who, it AYERS, seems to
stand in the highway at every crossing, and to
be in everybody's path he even has the
impudence, it continues, to remain there in
spite of the thousand and one attempts to
remove him. Proceeds our Jewish contem-
porary:-
tribute pointed out as being chiefest Of note;
craftsmanship, artistic accomplishment, literary
genius, commercial enterprise, financial boldness
come next in consideration, and mostly in spite OF
his being Jew. He had to rest on his arms
through ali the ages of his existence; the precau
hand" retains is full significance to this very
and his gifts accepted with surly humor. But he
stood manfully to his colors, and the unshakable
confidence in the ultimate triumph Of his cause,
which never fOrsOOk his race, no matter how try
ing the ordeal has preserved him and his faith in
tact amid the ruins and devastations OF ages, the
downfall OF nations and the collapse Of empires.
The Liberal Christian (Rev. DR.. Henry w.
Bellows) contains sensible article in relation
to american Warehouse Architecture. Says
the Liberal Christian: :
Boston has exceeded all the world In the costlt.
ness and splendor, the architectural ambition and
sh0winess Of her wholesale warehouses. They have
been solid and enormous, which Is well. But why
make places of ordinary business and traffc, where
people store and sell merchandise, like palaces in
their external appearance and often in their inter-
nal f1nishf
The Golden Age declares that it Islands with
Ireland against all the world" So it did for
Greeley. Mr.. Tilton gives pleasant retro
spect of the late Presidential campaign, and
seems satisfied that one principle at least was
settled by the result-to wit, that Sambo had
o right to vote.
The Feenan's Journal (Catholic> discourses
upon the "Result of the Voting" and, refer
ring to Francis Herman democratic candidate
for Governor), declares that ''the cry raised
against him on the score Of his being Catho-
lie was on afterthought we think it
can be proved, by Canal Board thieves and
others, who feared not his religious belief but
his religious integrity and official honesty"
The Observer (Presbyterian) advocates ''Suns
day school REFORM" and sees no propriety in
"depreciating sound evangelical instruction
for the sake Of encouraging the singing
Of hymns. Sing them by all means, if
they are good ones. Teach them to the
children, and let the words sing in their
hearts by the way and at home. This is
very well. But from child upward each one
should know the Scriptures and be thoroughly
instructed in the doctrines of the Gospel. It
is fatal mistake to suppose that children
cannot understand the grand truths Of the
Christian religion" And yet some Of the
greatest geniuses Of this age and generation
have been puzzled to understand them.
The Mstiodisi pitches into scepticism and
goes back hundred years to quote Bishop
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