The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-31
Our Religious PreS. Table.

l Ver AohShVuD HEoo8 TaOl0s
Notwithstanding this Is one of the most
Interesting religious seasons Of the year we
fail to notice in the majority Of our religious
contemporaries any reference to the period.
much less any homilies upon the different
marked days in the time of Lent. Even
to-day Easter Sunday-the great Christian
festival the world over, affords no inspiration
to but few Of our religious editorial friends.
In the meantime, however, we are muoh
gratifed to notice that the HERALp's urgent
appeals on behalf of revivals in all the
Churches Of the Christian brotherhood are
meeting their reward in various parts Of tho
country In Kansas, particularly. the good
work goes bravely on. The newspapers in
Lawrence are filled with glowing accounts OF
the steady flow Of this benignant current Of
grace. 1t is a happy day for Christianity In
tne west when ''bleeding Kansas" with her
crimson history of horrors, her dreadful REQ
ords OF massacres, rapine and outrage of past
years, can bring her people to bow in sub
mission to the peaceful workings of religion,
and to thrust sin and Satan behind them.
But how pitiable it is to see, In time 40
full of Righteousness and holiness like this. a
paper Of professed religious proclivities
throwing cold water upon the precious WORK
now going on in Kansas! Yet it is even 30.
In discoursing upon the Lawrence revival
the Independent says:-
LAWRENCE will not keep all it has gained in Ais
ae rev There w be- as there always Is, reacisn
zeal and confidence, whose voices are always heard
SACK na tn win orges their ana
! The enthusiasm for religion and morality whfon
nov pervades ana parlhes the social LIE OF the y
Suppose it does Is it not the true policy
Of good Christians to keep alive the excite
ment until the ''retail liquor stores have been
closed" gambling dens broken up" and
''other haunts Of vice." to which the Issds-
pendent refers, shave been desertedp" No
one who feels genuine interest in the suo-
cessful issue of contest between virtue and
vice, righteousness and sin, can help but wish
''God speed! !" 10 the reformation now going
on in country so long God-forsaken as poor
Kansas. To give, however, the Independent
Its due, we must quote the concluding sentences
in its article, throwing the wrong kind Of
water upon the religio- temperance movement
now exercising the demons of rum and ire
ligion in Kansas. They are as follows:-
We have no disposition to ignore the extrava-
ganceS and abuses which sometimes attend revlvaass
yet these are trihing when compared with the i'm
mense gains which the revlvals bring to public
virtue. Before we surrender the relgiOn OF Jesus
Christ by which these wonderful works are
wrought. we demand TO be shown something that
can take It's place reforming and eievatlng In
| nuence IN society.
The Evangelist (Presbyterian) is also con-
siderably exercised by the revival at Law
renee and elsewhere in Kansas pronouncing
them the greatest series of revivals which
have ever taken place west Of the Mississippi.
The well-known evangelist, the Rev. e.
Payson Hammond, has taken leading part
in these glorious triumphs of the Cross, being
warmly seconded, however, by all the evan
gelcal ministers in each of the several places"
The Indians of Idaho are also taking tho
initiative in the way of revivals. The Rev.
| H. H. Spalding, missionary among the Nee
| Perces Indians, writes ''that wonderful work
of grace is going on among those people,"
| They have given up missionaries as regular
diet and are in fair way of substituting
something lighter for dessert besides mission
airy scalps.
! The Observer, in an article entitled, "AN
| Religions Tolerated but Ours" is inclined to
| be severe upon the Japanese government for
| Its persistent efforts to throw barriers in the
| way of Christian progress in that country.
| We hope our contemporary will not be an
impatient observer of passing events. Japan
ese students are now in this country learning
something about Christianity as it is UNDER
stood and is practised here in this land Of
political and religious freedom. Perhaps
| Christian missionaries will be better tolerated
when these students return to their native
country and enlighten their friends and fell
low citizens" upon the results of their theo-
logical explorations in this part Of the world.
DR.. James McCosh, President of Princeton
College, writes in regard to the ''crisis of the
sustentation fund" being appointed by the
| General Assembly on the committee for
managing said fund. To judge from DR..
McCosh's statement the fund is not being
encouraged to the extent desired. A poor
clergyman may be a very excellent type of an
honest and conscientious man, but the pinch Of
| impecuniosity is not always confined to him
self, especially if he happen to have a large
family relying upon him for support DR..
McCosh suggests that more cash is wanted-a
hint that should not pass UNDECIDED by these
of the faithful who are blessed with riches.
| The Methodist wants an Ecumenical Council
of Methodists. What is there to hinder it 2
According to the Methodist:-
Metnodism has now reached a sort OF climactens
power in which 1t can propose and achieve things
which few years since would have been but
dreams.
The Northern AdcOcate (MethOdisD dis.
cusses the condition of the Methodist denomi.