The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-08
Voices OF the Religious ProsS.


The Christian Union treats in humorous
and sarcastic manner sour" Centennial, and
then gravely passes to the consideration Of
'sThe Severity of Christ, in whom it recog-
nizes the motherhood as well as the fatherhood
Of God Christ is the manifestation Of the
essence, in its infinite height and depth, Is
love. And yet the Union finds in the sayings
of Christ evidences Of Divine severity, which
are brought out when injury, or insult is offered
to His bride,s the Church.
The Methodist has an editorial on :standayd
Theology" intended to be comment IpoK i
general article on this subject which, it says,
twill be found on another page" The article
and the page are both missing from our copy
of the paper, and we cannot, therefore, judge
of its sprightliness or its merits. We have,
however, a we'll considered and we'll written
editorial on the 'God in the constitution"
amendment, in which the editor sees no real
good to be attained from it. 1t will not make
us us o nation q particle more religious Such
verbal recognitions of God by the sovereigns
and the laws Of England, France, Spain and
Russia have not made those nations or peoples
religious, and we are to-day Christian people
without any such constitutional recognition.
The Evangelist calls attention to the con-
solidation of the several boards of the Pres
byterian Church into four departments,
whereby the expenses are lessened and the
efficiency of those institutions is promoted.
1t also moralizes on the storm signal that
floats from the building on Broadway and
Cedar street. How many wrecks of virtue
there are, how many characters lost, how many
souls ruined because the moral storm signal
was not thrown out to their vision! In this
great city of a million of souls what tragedies
of woe are enacted every day and every hour
The only religious editorial in the columns
of the Christian advocate, aside from its mer-
tied eulogy of the late Rev. Emile F. Cook, ia
devoted to an calculation Of the proposition
that the powerful efforts put forth at Wash
ington to have the Indian Bureau transferred
from the Interior to the War Department are
due in part to the Vaccinations of Jesuit
priests who, by this transfer, hope to gain
control of the Indian service. If there be any
real danger in this direction we "don't see
it." It is probably nearer the truth to say
that an army ''ring' want the transfer made
for the purposes Of plumber than to assign the
reason the Advocate does.
The Fireman. Journal devotes leader to
this, the month of St Joseph, whose devotion
has been wonderfully propagated in these lat
ter times The Tablet gives it's editorial atten-
ton to the same subject. ST. Joseph is the
chosen patron of the Catholic Church The
Tablet, therefore, calls upon its people to pray
to the good saint for his interposition in be-
half of the Church now prosecuted and foI
dergoing persecution and tribulation for the
holy cause Of religion.
The Je,oish Times draws q comparison
between English and American Judaism, in
which the former comes out second best,
clinging, as it does in this enlightened age, to
all the old ceremonies and rites derived from
tradition, as if they were of Divine origin,
while the latter makes little or no account OF
them. Per contra, the Jeaoish Messenger again,
as usual, lifts its warning voice in favor Of
Religious Consistency and against those
theories and practices in Judaism which are
not strictly orthodox, especially laxity in doc
trines and religious instruction Of the young.
The Hebrew Leader draws parallel between
two great thinkers-Strauss, whose 'Life Of
Jesus created such sensation OF the time OF
its publication, and the great Jewish phi
losopher, Maimonides, whose masterwork, the
"Moreb Nebuchim," created as great sensa-
ton about the beginning of the thirteenth
century.