National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-25

MALICIOUS NOTES.

The Msthedirtl IN Italy have lstsiy boughss
valuable piece Of .greund IN Rome near the
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the wall Of the old church.
Bishop Van, Of Kspsas. says that church srchi.
tects need to think more than they generally do
and that be is sure that comfortsbie sdinces.
with full opportunity for the congregation 70 see
and hear the preacher, and JOIN intelligentiy in
lions Of the nssiersi Gothic, With All ia angles
and fpires. The Bishop Of Ksnsas might give
lecture on this suolect 10 his eastern friends
The Jewish Messenger ,thinks that american
Judsism ought to celebrate the centennial in
oeeomiDg way, 30 that there VIII be . living rec.
oEd o. our sense Of happiness and gratinestion
witnessed the emancipation Of Israel every
where-the abandonment ofthe Ghetto-the de-
Ru..a@n Psr,isin Hic. Tssn to rsss
brethren freed rom political slavery, and enable
them to enjoy the privileges and meet the respon-
sibilitiec OF freedom without passing through the
frisndless struggle Of generation
A correspondent Of The Boston Advertiser,
altar listening 10 two or London's noted preach
two men could be more utterly unlike each other
IN person, character and manner than Dean
Stanley and spurgson: The dean small; thin, re-
exponent In thouRht OF highest intellectual cul-
tuIe. Spurgeon burly, almost gross, intense,
pis TSc one tImost Il iDs ns yp reading, n
church conceived and slowly fashioned BY pol
fshed art the other holding sororously forth In
Sss T Sh@P uSheaTa DEAN Carrying, through the
force Of reputation, the impression OF mental
through me so.sa o
the other an apostle Of Christ"
The CArfstfan Register directs attention to the
fact that the great religions Of the world have
not from abstract principles, and thus meets the
argument Of certain free religionists who main
p s 1sb.. ssn
and that every person must be limited and falli-
BILE. Thus Judaism, Buddhism, Islam and Chris
Brshmsnism, the Egyptian, the Greek and the
Roman re igiong were not Identified with any
sueh personal influence. The forms Of Christian
organization might be reviewed In the light Of
this fact, and conclusions might be drawn rs to
the bearing Of the prominence OF personal
leaders over abstract doctrines In the Christian
determinations. Certainly Luther and Wesley
hold Q great place In their religious fellowship,
and are powers Of history, whilst the sscts that
dominant Even Rome, that claims to have an
unerring catechism, builds upon st. Peter,
and the Pope claims intallibility through 81:
mean to affirm the limited Influences and worth
of all personality, and to deny this attribute to
the Supreme Being in their frequent pautheism.
The statue Of Richard Baxter that was IN
vieled on July Is by the Bishop OF Worcester, is
. cheering memorial Of the better and the i'm
proving state Of Theological feeling IN England;
the cost Of the monument, and Dean Stanley
made one Of his thoughtful and scholarly sd-
dresses. Baxter was born In ROwton, Shropshire,
November II, 1915, and died In London. December
8, 1881. He was Puritan, and at the same time
aroyalist and advocate Of an esta bill he'd church.
CHARLES IL. offered him Q bishopri- recognition
o. bis fidelity to his father. hut Baxter declined
the honor and the emoluu emit and suffered much,
even to fine and Imprisonment, account Of his
non. episcopal opinions. He held some peculiar
convictions and stood on middle ground
between the Puritans and the Established
Church. His "Saints Rest" and his
"Can TO the Unconvertedn have had great circu-
lation and in1uence, and were once to be found In
most of the reading religious families Of New
England. 1t should be remem bered new, when
the old controversies are over, that he always
urged practical rectitude above dogmstic opinion
and exalted Christian charity beyond external
usages. Now that Bunysn and Baxter are held
M to honor by the dominant religion Of England,
we may hope that the age OF bigotry is gone and
that Christian people are ready to accept and
honor Christian men of mark and power.