The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-03
The Religious Pross and What 1t
Has to Say During the Heated

The hot weather has still perceptble effect
upon the spirit and temperament of our relig-
ious contemporaries. The Christian Union.
however, finds space for cool four column
article on very congenial theme-namely,
"A1r. Beecher's Theology" The writer ex-
plains that the phrase ''vinegar-faced evangel-
icals," for long time attributed to the
Christian Uaion did not originate with the
editor of that sheet. It was, it appears, a
reporters invention. "That there are very
sour-faced people among 'evangelicals, ad-
mits the Union "there can be no doubt but
that such an epithet describes the prevailing
habits of evangelical Christians can be af-
frmed by no man who knows them" Hav-
ing thus made the ame,sde honorable to his
clerical brethren, the writer proceeds to de-
fend Mr.. Beecher against the charge Of nom
orthodoxy as follows
The sweeping charge Of favoring non-orthodox
sects and OF assailing those which arc orthodox
true on both sides. "a vigorous defender of orthO
doxy Is made very quickly to feel chat Mr.. Beecher
has no sympathy with him." Fifteen years OF ser.
selection and rarely with any revision, and the
man that says that they are conceived in hostility
to evangelical doctrine, or to the great aims and
methods of the orthodox sects, can escape the
charge OF Islander only by pleading that he spoke
in haste where he was not well informed
The Golden Age, referring to the Queen of
England's lunch of beef sandwiches and
brown stout. partaken of publicly on the occa-
sion of the Shah's reception, suggests that
every workingman in England could, ON that
evening, as he sat at his own frugal table, say
to his wife, "Well, Mary, we have seen what the
Queen eats and drinks; she eats beef sandwiches
and drinks brown stout. That what we eat and
drink ourselves We fare as we'll as the Queen
does let us be content" at may possibly
be-" adds the writer in the, Age, 'that the
Queens beef sandwich and bottle of brown
stout have silently erected themselves in the
coal miners and hod carriers as a barricade
against the forthcoming revolution. It is
pretty hard for the working class to cry down
q bloated aristocracy of sandwiches and brown
stout. 1t is rather difficult to point to the
riot and extravaganza of a sovereign whose
public lunches cost only o shilling apiece. 1t
makes the task of Sir Charles Dixie henceforth
all the harder for him to pursue to victory.
1t sets the British lion squarely across the
path of Mr. Bradlaugh, ready to roar back at
him word for word"
The Age has correspondent who appears
to be delighted with the oranges established
by the agriculturists in the West and else
where. "These oranges" he says, 'sare evil
IDENTIFY great institution in embryo They
are the best thing yet extant or promised.
They are promising the nearest approach yet
TO the practical solution of the labor problem.
Why, they are, and without ostentation about
it, coming very closely TO the solution even of
the woman suffrage-womans rights question"
That is about the hardest thing that has yet
been said about these popular oranges.
The Independent comes up to the defence of
the Indians and protests against their being
denationalized It says =
Those who talk so nippantly about denatonaliz-
ing the Indian tribes, and by the law Of force re-
uniting them TO the condition Of mere Inhabitants,
irrespective OF their own choice, are simply pro-
posing that the United states should become the
killer OF the Indian nations and the robber OF the
territory WHICH belongs 70 Jne, anu that, too, In
the face OF some four hundred treaties which have
explicitly recognized their nationality
The same paper also defends the Howard
University against the alleged SANDERS that
have been made against it,
The Jeuish Times devotes its editorial space
to review of the Memorial Day of the
Destruction Of Jerusalem" which will be ap-
propriately c6mmemorated to-day, this being
the ninth day of the Jewish calendar month
Alb, designated as the "black day. in the
history of the Jewish nation. The Hebre,o
Leader, the Je,oish Messenger and other papers
of the Hebrew faith also make the day the
subject of editorial comment.
The EOdngaist descants on the meaning of
the word 'sectarian." and bluntly afirms that