The New York herald., 1872-09-22


character of the Roman Catholic Church.
Against the liberal expressions of DR.. Hodge
and the Christian Weekly it afirms the con-
vction that any Church asserting infallibility
for its earthly head and claiming the ability
to pardon sins for consideration, must be
evil in its influence, and that the individual
members of society founded upon the mo-
rality of Socrates, Hume, Emerson and Her
bert Spencer would be more moral than the
Catholics. Admitting that there are black sheep
in every flock. it says we never see newspaper
accounts of Baptist brigands or Methodist
pirates, while the banded robbers of the East
are as punctilious in their duties to the
Church as they are regardless of every law
God ever made for man, unwilling to eat meat
on Friday, but willing to cut o mans throat
every day in the week. Still it comedies that
there are many sincere and noble Christians in
the Roman Church. that learning has had her
aids and ornaments there and liberty its
friends and martyrs. After uttering such ex-
emplifcations of the spirit of Christian char
ity the editor advises Christians to emulate
the politicians in the beautiful mood in which
they take defeat and disappointments, hoping,
as they always do, to ''sweep the State in the
next struggle"
The Je,oish Times blows blast for Hebrew
reform against orthodoxy, and rejoices that
refined, educated and thoughtful people are
no longer ashamed of being known as Jews,
because the antiquated superstition is being
eliminated from that Church of Churches and
heavenly freedom is taking its place.
The Boston Pilot discusses women's poll
tics. It says the Catholic Church from the
first took the hand of woman and has led her
from the social depths to the position she now
holds. But no Catholics are to be found in
the ranks of the so-called woman's party,
because, going on the wrong track, it denies
that woman is woman, and attempts to
prove her "only another man." Newspaper
'.interviews'' and the power and usefulness
of the press are the subject of an able article,
in which the great men of this day are
reminded that their fame comes mostly
through the newspaper, and that the COM
mendations Of the press are the wind which
swells the sails of popularity. In illustration
the recent interview of a HERALD correspond
ent with Mgr. Dupanloup is quoted
Church and State inquiries ''Who are dis
senters?" and in answer alludes to eight
millions of protesting Christians called Star
overs or Old Church Believers. They esteem
the Greek Church, with its one hundred mil
lions, innovators and heretical dissenters,
guilty of marching in professions contrary to
the course of the sun and shaving the
beard, sooner than do which one should
cut off his own or his neighbor's head. Ad-
herents of the Greek Church charge dissent
and schism upon the Holy Catholic Apostolic
Church of Rome, which, in turn, points the
finger Of reproach at the Church of Eng
land, whose champions claim for it history
beyond the Middle Ages, through Gaul and
Ephesus up to the Apostle John. Episco-
palians scorn as dissenters the short-lived
Independents disciples of Calvin, who reproach
the followers of Arminius as dangerous intro
ducers of new notions. In fact, to each Church
its own orthodoxy is obvious, while the hetero-
doxy of all the world besides is cause for grief
and pity. "I'' isalways spelled with large
character, while 'thou' is never so dignifed;
yet the editor believes the dissenters of the West
come no whit behind the oldest of the orthodox
in living piety. Liturgical church service is
it are assured that the Episcopal Church claims
no monopoly Of it, but would be glad of its
adoption in all worship.
The Liberal Christian makes the not very
liberal charge that in American Christendom
there is most zeal to be found where ignorance
most abounds. Such capacity of wholesale
assertion and reckless disparagement Of those
who hold opposite views naturally suggests the
inquiry whether the editor is not better fitted
to conduct political than religious paper.
The Neeman's Journal alludes to contri-
button by the Holy Father Pope Plus TX. Of
table service for the benefit of the female
branch of the Catholic Protectory, which was
burned few weeks ago. The articles, which
are embellished with the Pope's monogram,
are to be sold, and q rattle is suggested, that
rich and poor alike may have chance to
become their possessor. The Journal, after
compimenting the HERALD on the fulness and
promptness of its recent Geneva dispatches,
expresses the opinion that in the arbitration
Great Britain has submitted to signal humil-
iation, and considers the award as fine i'm
posed upon her for her malevolent i'll will
towards America.
The Examiner and Chronicle criticises the
practice Of ....singing down" long-winded
prayer or exhortation in social meetings, init
mating that such hymns are hardly fit praise
for the Almighty 1t contains also, from Rev.
Mr.. Pentecost, of Brooklyn, q statement of
the circumstances attending the first COM
munion of Miss Smiley, who, having been
Friend, was lately baptized. His action had
been condemned as at variance with the rules