The New York herald., 1873-12-28
The Religious Press on Current Topics.

selected its own peculiar doctrinal points, and
thereupon dwelt with its usual clerical con-
| spicuity
| it is OF the utmost importance that course
should be pursued in regard to Bishop Cum
| Minis as calm, dignifed and unirritating as
| possible. 1t regrets that proceedings have
| been instituted with view to the trial of the
Bishop. SIN case such trial is held" says
the editor, 'and the Bishop should appear
with able counsel in his defence, beyond
doubt the case would be so presented as to
enlist no little sympathy in his behalf. If he
should not appear the whole affair would be
ridiculous and absurd"
The Independent reiterates the ground it
maintains in regard to the support of religious
institutions-to wit that they should be sus-
tanned entirely by voluntary contribution, and
not at all by taxation, whether the method be
direct in the form of levy and an appro-
priation, or indirect in the form of a tax ex-
emption. 'This,' AYERS the editor sis the
theory upon which the Church started in the
days of Christ and His apostles, and which
| WAS COuUluueu uulu IL DeCuIo uulJcO WILL tac
State. The sooner this theory is resumed the
sooner the Church will go back to its primi-
tive doctrine, depending ON its friends for
support and asking no special favors or i'm
munities at the hands of the State" The In
dependent hopes the Senate will assert its inde
pendence by rejecting the nomination of
Judge Williams as Chief Justice. ''The
President" thinks the editor, certainly can
make wiser choice, and, as we have no
doubt, if the Senate were to give him this in
timation he would try the experiment. The
lesson to him would be good one, and
good one for all Presidents after him.
The Evangelist advocates the raising of
fund of ten thousand dollars for the relief of
the families of Professor Pronier, of Geneva,
and Mr.. Carasco, of Madrid, delegates to
the Evangelical Alliance in this city who
perished in the Vile du Havre. The appeal
is urged with much earnestness, and no
doubt will be correspondingly responded to.
The Evangelist is evidently unfriendly to Com
munism as it exists in New York. ''The
snaky head" asserts the editor ''that was so
lately beaten down and dragged in dust and
blood in the streets of Paris, is only 'scotched,
not killed." After recapitulating some of
the proceedings at the late International
Workingmen's demonstration at Cooper Insti-
tute the Evangelist, referring to the movement
there inaugure.ted, concludes;
1t must Be met We must engage in a hand to
hand fight with vice and idleness. We must bring
moral truth, and especially religious truth, to bear
| ppHn fhn nuhl IL m al yvhtIa yarp isuu
private charity and benefcence, and manilestng
sympathy with want, we must endeavor to instruct
and to win the confidence OF those whom dema-
| gogues and pseud0-reformers stand ready to mis-
lead, and bring them TO the side OF good sense,
good morals and religious principle.
The Christian Leader had begun to think
quite well of the present Congress. ''But,
alas - exclaims the editor, chow soon are
the fondest hopes dispelled The virtue which
shot up in many an auroral fame as the scene
opened has already turned pale in the fourth
week, and bids fair to vanish altogether long
before adjournment. Nothing high toned or
manly has appeared in the whole of this salary
business
~, The Liberal Christian boldly affirms that
thfTe aa rf1,,s in churches, as we'll as in busi-
ness and politics. 9s.lns.se is' declares the
editor, ''the steady ignoring Of the .eano
purpose of a church organization; while the
things which ought to be done are left undone,
and things which ought not to be done are
the first to be put in motion. The Church
exists that it may do good; it is means to an
end, an agent for the unselish promotion of
spiritual things. The instant it loses sight of
this great mission it ceases to be necessary to
the advancement of mankind, and unless it can
be reformed and made true to this purpose
it should be pulled down and destroyed as a
hinderance and curse to the world"
The Christian at Worh labors with consid-
erable zeal on the subject of the Censorship
of the Clergy 1t does not defend those who
force oppressive measures upon congregations
or are in perpetual conflict All such must
meet the consequences Of their own acts
But" asks the editor "where minister and
congregation are unit in their work, is it
| quite the thing for some Rev. Creamcheese to
insist that the brother shall adopt his way of
doing things? Yet just this is done-done in
the city, done out of the city, done every day
in the year, Sundays, of course excepted.
| 1ihio'Sio S"h o,oieciy cApec1 W TccelVe more
justice from the secular press than from their
brethren in the ministry; and yet, of all the
censorship we have ever heard, none has been
quite so self-pronounced, arbitrary and unjust,
nor withal quite pitiabe, as that heard
from the lips of that paradox, jealous minis
| ter
| The Je,oish Messenger lashes certain members
Of Congress, General Butler in particular, for
speaking contemptuously of 'Jew bankers"
adding
The Jew bankers OF Europe aided our coqntry
| during the war when we might nave appealed i'm
vain TO Mr.. Butler and his friends 10 devise .'ways
and MEANS" This is well known 10 Mr. Eutler
and we recoect that his memory was refreshed an
this subject al time when he irankly expressed
ignorance ana requested information iIe has
grown older and not wiser within ten ycara ~