, 1874-12-20
= RELIGIOUS PRESS.


discusses Is sChurch: :sociability. and tho impoz-
tance of the cultivation of Christian friendship.
It also gives succilct history of the origin and
development OF Tnitarianism. Tao Adrance
says:
in this country Is high Arianism in Worcester and
Claiming. 1t tended downward to Socinianisn, then
to further hunanitaEilnisul, and pushcu to the
last results Of extreme Rat;on.lism. and Uni
tarana themselves termed it. tn1delity by Theodore
Parker. Ill. Parker. however, in his " Friendly Let
ter challenged his old associates to show that he had
ranrceuded in any respect their fundamental prinet
pies and methods of dealing with tho Scriptures.
From the edge Of this chasm steady and rapid
enlarged into ccnplets orthodoxy, aud others Ike
Drs peatody and Sears. seemingly into much
approximation to It than the position ct Worcester
neug:on1sts and descending se1ies Ill the way be-
tween Tie practical and spiritual distance of Drs.
Peabody and Scars from orthodoxy Ii apparently lesa
even than the theoretical
On tho other hand, this paper is not aware OF
any change in the Congregational body, except
such :s pertain to manner rather than matter.
Asperitiea Of intercourse have passed Away =;
infelicities Of form and statement have been
corrected; doctrines tlavo been preached less
abstrsctly and less prominently; very few
ministers hare gained some notorie:y by ques-
ionable utterance and one brilliant and po-
dispensable necessity OF Ghrist's death to human
salvation. has advanced 4 theory as to the
method Of Its influence which his breth-
req generally o. ls,;.q not accept But IN
1ance, the mass Of . intelligent, orthodox
Congregationalists have approached no nearer
to the Unitarian belief than in the days Of Stuart
and Woods. So, if Unltarianism and Congrega-
tlona!ism arc ever to unite, the inference is that
it must come through The advance Of the former
towzrd the latter in dogmatic belief.
TIKI NORTHWESTERN ADVOCATE
quotes the figures which show the rapid spread
Of Methodisna in this country, and gives it's
readers some good advlce With regard to general
culture. 1t also publishes an editorial defense
Of President Fowler from recent newspaper at
tacks, and charges that these disturbances md
newspaper articles lAve grown largely out Of
personal ill-will, toward DR.. Fowler SAYS the
Northeastern OF Dr. Fowlers administration
1t is worth while to remind the dincontentcd that
has doubled; that Law College has been erented !;
that the Womans Colless has been put unde: the con-
troll OF the University, and vas never bcfors
porous It present. that tbs Preparatory School has
been rcorGauized and i:a corps Of teachers doubled
that At every point In the acrTire OF tho University
there is vgort: e7pacit,; nnd ruceesa # any other
loan were President That would get the credit of
ts property Or. Fowler is entitled to part Of tbs
THE STANDARD.
Dr.. H. W. Thomas, pastor of the Eiret II. Z.
Church. OF this city. having recently delivered .
sermon in which he criticised ths religious press
IS not up to tho demands Of tie age, the
Standard contfoyerts the Doctors opinion. aud
claims that :.there is no sbler journalism in the
world than tha. Of tbs religious press none
which moro readily OF eagerly seizos hold of and
makes use Of the Developments in all depart
ments Of human investigation"
The Standard. also reviews. qrite e1aborately
DR.. Draper'6 Late work on the relations OF rellg-
ion and scieucc, and concludes TINT it takos q
more vigorous faith to accept NIL the Doctors
propositions than it requires to believe the dog
mas OF Christianity. Tho EGme paper uttcrs
sensible protest =gainBt the announced purpose
OF the open-Comnunion League" to promots
ita special views with regard to tho communion
within the several Baptist churches to which tho
members belong, rather than by voluntary aud
fo17nzl withtlra wa1-
.-.' TIE ISpErESDENT,
after quoting the Intf,7or's statement thEt u
union Of Cnit:rians and Congregatioualinta wss
Impossible 30 long a. Tho latter kold to the doc
tIlue Of IAN e1piatnry sacrifice" ssys look
over the history OF the Church will show that
the philosophy Of redemption is undergoing
some changes. But il the Interior will look
back over the hiHtory Of tho Church 1t wiIl see
ta,4t tho theory. of the atoHemeut has bsen
changed good many tunes ginco the ascension
Ct oar Lord without destroying the Church.
e.; -. - THE ALLIANCE
says BaEard Taylor co1nn as en- *'adyanco guard
from :klns Plaraoh. to spy out the land aud
EQuua the american Church az to its willingness
to invest in tho Egyptian statutes. II remarks
, thai:
Aftcs the rocks the scientific men are now e1hu1ntng
shsll havs shown us the Ten Commandments and ths
Ahars aud Aws OF sacrifice shall then fall back
upon Moses an eclectic, and shall dccare him to
have been wonderful judgs Of good lew, md We
slal suppose hs sent to Pnnrsola daughter that
Ee might study Law aud then d.ccn to hle coun-
eFs viii .cT l2w-booi under his arnl-
The sanao paper has en- editorial which urges
the advantages ct lces intense denominations
1llnn, zad hsils as AZ omen of good tho union