The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-08-07
Spirit of the Religious Press.

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Spirit Of the Religious Press.
UNiTARIANs AND THE LORDS SUFFER-
The CGr.sfiaa Register Of Boston Unitari-
an indicates that the importance Of the
communion service is not agreed upon in
that denomination. Some societies celebrate
il regularly every month, Others only -oncs
a quarter, while others omit il entirely
Rev. NJ. J. Savage, pastor Of Unity Society
one Of the largest in Boston, says it is OF
slight importance whether the ceremony i
observed Of not, and he does not often oh.
serve il. Rev. James Freeman Clark, ID. D.
says the service in his church is open to all
church members or not, and church mem
hers commune or not, ~ they prefer. A.
radical or free religious views, so called
prevail--as they are doing in many Of the
congregations over sold School Unitarian
ism"-the ordinance Of the Lords Supper
like that Of baptism, ia generally modified
in form or dropped altogether. In some
congregations, where teetotal views are
prevalent, the supposed danger Of the wine
cup has aided in supervising the ordinance,
and in one Of the oldest and wealthiest so
cieties, that at New bediord, the elements
are omitted and the service made sort Of
"memorial Of all saints and cages" Jesus
among the rest.
OUR COOLIES" UNIVERSITY AGAIN.
The editor Of the California Christian I'D.
rOsate discriminates between common schools
and colleges or universities, and thinks re
ligiOus exercises, a. reading the Bible and
prayer, mot 50 absolutely necessary" for
the former, but quite essential for the latter
The former should be sustained by taxation;
but the Legislature has no right to levy a
tax for the support Of academic education.''
With regard to what il called "the Goddess
system Of collegiate training newly inaus-
urated," DR.. Benson is utterly opposed to
il, and rejoices that the will Of Stephen
Girard. who gave several millions Of dol
lars to establish such an institution in Phil
adelphia, was overruled BY the Court on
the ground that mo college could exist
without the Scriptures and prayer" mo
where" he avers, "is the moral tone in such
institutions pure and elevated. The stu
dents in some OF them are 30 grossly immOr-
a. that their presencs Is q stencil in the
for they are suffered. to seek
pleamre without check in the qualification
of appetite and passion" What say our
Berkely Professors to this charge?
THE JONAH STORY ECLlPsED.
Rev. DIR. Kincaid tells "a 6sh story" in
the Christian Adrocute, which, il true, dis
counts the Bible story Of Jonah heavily.
He says, in brief, that carpenter on board
. vessel at sea was taken sick and suffered
such acute pain that he swooned. As he
was supposed to be dead he was thrown in
to the sea, with grin.lstone attached to
sink the body. Soon after his son, despOnd-
emit over the loss Of his father. jumped over
board and was lost. The next day the sail
DIN harpooned a whale, and on cutting
Il up they heard . grinding sound inside
that they could not account for. Going on
With their work, however, the mystery was
.oon solved. The whale vas found to have
.valloved both the father and the son, and
The former had recovered from his swoOn
md feeling refreshed by his salt water bath,
had rugged up the grindstone. and With his
'on to turn il, vas sharpening an ax to cut
ana way out. As already intimated, ithe
Rev. Doctors story can be established the
loubts and slurs which Paine, In8ersoll
md other critics have throwL upOn the
Testament narrative gill prove to be M
reasonable.
THE FASHIONABLE CRIME.
The CRsnRssaH quotes approvingiy from
recent address BY Bishop Stevens OF Penn
ylvania before the Episcopal Convention,
j passage in which he spoke Of what ply
iciaus call fashiOnsble crime. the de-
truction Of ante-natal life. and said accord
M TO medical statistics il vas - wide
pread and deep-roosed evil, and steadily
n the increase," appearing among those
Hose social and even religious standing il
comment and above suspicion" delicate
nd pious women" being guilty in numerous
Of numbering, he declared, their
IN children.
PnOrHsrANlsN IN CITIES.
The Goldsn Rule says: "Proeestsntism in
nr principal cities n q failure. The fail
re Of the Proseaant Church 70 realise her
slation to the masses hes been. and n, her
hieiest error, 20 far - ehristianisiog the
ORD soes." The cities are further spoken
- l0v, uacultivaisd swanps, or "marsh-
\" from which rise "miasmaa, which cary
int and eoatagioa to the very moanta's-