The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-14
Echoes OF tho Religious Press.


Politics, education and religion attract the
attention of our religious contemporaries this
week. Under the first head the Independent
claims the right of black men in any State
which refuses them equal rights to rise and
crush their oppressors. And yet it does not
see the need of passing the Civil Rights bill,
because under our form Of government Con-
gress has no more to do with sentimental adj
vantages' for negroes or whites than it has to
appoint a regent for China. The bill is
righteous one, but it is not one within the
province of the federal government, and the
Independent would commit the whole matter to
the several States. The Methodist wants states
men who can deal with the problems that not
only affect the South, but the whole country
men whose craftsmanship will not consist in
passing bill to-day to meet what they think
they want and passing another tomorrow to
correct the mistakes of the first, and whose
foresight is limited to calculating the effect
of their work upon the next party caucus
or the next election.
The Christian Union, contrasting Schurz and
his successor in the United States Senate.
Cockrill, regrets the substitution, for the lat
ter is a new man, untried, while the former
is statesman Of great ability and high charac-
ter, and the Southern people. in his defeat,
have met with great loss He is known to
be in favor of just, generous and strictly con-
stitutional course toward the reconstructed
States and there is need of such men in the
Senate OF the present time to moderate parti-
sanship and sectional feeling and to promote
harmony between the North and the South
The Evangelist, after recting the chief politi-
cal measures for good advanced by the Coun-
Gil of Political Reform here during the past
slacken their vigilance nor divide their forces,
but to act together for the common good Of
the whole, and the result within the next four
years will be something of which we may all
be equally proud. And, meantime, it hopes
the Council will go on with its work, encour-
aged by the support Of all the better part of
our population.
The Je,oish Times is alarmed and calls upon
the Germans to arouse themselves ere the
Board of Education shall Withdraw the small
concession of their language in the public
schools made few years ago. The H'eenan's
Journal is in unusually bad humor. Its edi-
tors pen has evidently been dipped in gall,
for it abuses the ex-Queen of Spain and her
son Alfonso and the Spanish government and
General Grant for their prosecutions of, or dis
courtesies toward the Catholic Church. 1t
apologies for the Pope sending the "rose' to
Isabella and his blessing to Alfonso on the
grounds that he (the Pope) is not by his Office
gifted with sure knowledge of the character
of those personages he has to deal with--he is
not infalhble-and that it was the office, and
not the person, who was thus honored. Com
pared with sacrilege it thinks marital infdelity
is light crime; and hence, while it does not
acquit Isabella of the latter, its anathemas are
heavy on her for her confscation and seques-
! tration of converts and religious houses.
On the subject of education the Christian
Advocate declares that the battle between
/ ignorance and intelligence has fairly begun in
this State and it calls upon the friends OF
/ universal education not to desist from their
! labors until the facts shall demonstrate that
it is better to educate the people than to be
taxed for tho sad results of ignorance and
crime :. II thinks the common schools are
much more effective TO break up ''rings" than