The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-06

The Je,cish Times is jubilant over the grand
Masonic procession and dedication the other
day, and thinks that the highest praise be-
slowed upon the fraternity is found in the
unqualified depunciation and condemnation
of it by intolerant sects who shut their eyes
against the enlightenment and progress OF
achievement and think the sun does not shine
because their eyelids are closed.
The Church Journal is exercised over the fact
England and one here, in which the issue is
the sacramental idea of marriage as held by
the Church Of Rome. And the Journal quotes
from Gladstone's pamphlet and from Papal
documents in proof of It's assertion that that
Church treats Protestant marriage as no mar
or who are married under civil law live in
concubinnge and their children are illegiti-
mate. And under the operation Of this vie
il says Cardinal Manning left his wife and
took orders in the Church of Rome, and thus
''made himself infinitely contemplate as
low sneak in the eyes of all gentlemen"
The Catholic Rerie,o is Indignantly sarcastic
at what 1t calls Bismarck's plot to entrap the
Archbishop of Paris into the semblance of
heading O plot to assassinats the Prussian
Chancellor. And because the Belgian govern
ment refused TO advance the scheme Bis
morck has been bullying and threatening it
and giving vent to his rage. he greatly de.
sired TO have another excuse to increase tue
prosecutions Of the Church. The He5rep
Leader. while regretting that Jewish con-
eregation in this city (Bnai Jeshurun)
should be the first to take advantage of law
which passed the last Legislature, and to enter
the civil courts with an ecclesiastical contro-
versy, does, nevertheless. justify appeals to
the civil courts by citing incidents which
illustrate the powerlessness of ecclesiastical
courts to enforce their own discipline and or
dinances. Plymouth church, Brooklyn, and
Glendenning, in Jersey City, are notable ex-
amples The Tablet looks upon Mr.. Beecher as
a pseudo great man, but having no real moral,
spiritual or intellectual greatness. II classes
him with Moody and Sankey and yarley
aud Sturgeon, none of whom can be
called great except in a Barnum sense.
Inc IhFtStauN az WOTE mas CauStC and
humorous article on the sale Of pews in
heaven. designed as a caricature on the Gus
tom Of selling peYs in churches here. The
rich and the noble of earth get the best pews
in heaven as they do here, and Jesus and
Paul and James and Baxter and Wesley and
Doddridge and others are driven into corners,
up in galleries or out into missions. And yet
this is not all dream. There is too much
reality in the picture to make light OF ii and
1t is an evil that grows and strengthens year
by year. The Independent is surprised not
that Moody aud Sankey, one an uneducated
lay preacher and the other an uncul-
tivatcd singer, should be able to stir the
heart Of the metropolis Of the world as they
have done, but that there are so few Moodys
and Sankey's and that such q revival has been
delayed SO long. This is the strange thing
aboutit. But they believe in God and in His
word, and they preach aud sing the Gospel
they have learned with the downright earnest
ness OF absolute conviction. This is the secret
] NJ their success. The Lhuehman accounts