The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-03
Voices OF tho Religious Press.

Among the sounds given forth by the re-
hgious press this week the Methodist likens
the pretensions and assumptions of scientists
to the sacerdotalism Of the priests. 1t declares
that the dogmatic spirit and the scientific
spirit are mutually exclusive of each other.
No man, it adds, dogmatizes over mathe-
NAUTICAL demonstration, or the weight OF the
atmosphere, or the composition of water. All
these speak for themselves. 1t is only in the
region OF the improved and improbable that
men dogmatize.
In review of Professor Seeye's recent
lecture on missions before the Yale Divinity
School the Tablet admits that the ceremonials
and ordinances of the Church are not essential
to her work; but they have been found very
effective with the great body of mankind
The Tablet thinks that the creeds and cate
chisms and sacraments of the Church are
much more effective in the reclamation of men
than are the Old or New Testaments, and
that the success of Catholic over Protestant
missions demonstrates this.
The Baltimore Mirror calls the past 'sthe
heroic year of faith" because 80 many ad-
herents OF Catholicism have suffered the loss
of all things for the truth and conscience
sake. The barbarity of our time, it says, is
civilized barbarity. There is no grossness
about it, but all the time the confessors, who
would not shrink from being martyrs, have to
suffer. The year 1874 leaves it's memories to
that which approaches, to be marked and
noted for love that was unwavering, fortitude
that was mistaken and devotion that never
faltered in loyalty to the Church in spite of
the hosts of evil The Je,oish Times,
reviewing the events of the past year and
taking an observation for the year 1875,
refers to the conflict in Germany between
the Catholic Church and the civil power as
being the most remarkable event in the his
tory of 1874. Old and feeble as the Church
of Rome appears, shorn as it is of
much of its former power, it possesses
nevertheless, says the Times, that vitality,
that wonderful strength which religious
fanaticism or religious enthusiasm conveys.
1t is still the religion of many millions Of
people, and by majority Of the members Of
the Church the Pope is looked upon as moth
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defeat of the Church have not made her more
submissive. She is as proud and defiant, if
not more so, as at any previous period Of her
existence. She seems to fear the mighty Ger
man Empire of to-day no more than in the
times when Germany's Emperor in bare feet
and clad in q hair shirt, begged the Pope's
forgiveness. But, in spite OF all assumption,
her power is waning away. The Je,cish Mes
senger sends out greeting to its readers in
view of the advances which Judaism has made
within the past year.
The Independent pays its respects to DR.. Full
ton, of Brooklyn, in sarcastic article, in
which it regrets his necessity to give up jour-
nalism in which he has done such royal SER
vice to the open communicates in his denom-
ination. 1t says he has gained one victory
over them in Brooklyn that has been worth
more to them than any dozen successes that
they have achieved for themselves. The Inde-
pendent rejoices, however, that the Doctor will
now be free to write newspaper squibs about
himself which his modesty would not permit
him to do as editor of his own paper
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