The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-29
RELIGION IN EUROPE.
Interesting Ls..s. from Prof. c. l. Loo. of
Bethany College.

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1o,oso1 nv lac, le.,sr bv referr;ny 10 n
vorv falsc and fatal sentiment that has
80, ,,n IN old Emrono with reference 10
gfo"n up ~ o'u i'u ~ VIZ - i,
the relation oil tue olU ehufehes u e'seil
other viz: the spirit Of liberation and re-
covnition the shirt of peace, in its ex.
20, ,,.a,,o.,od ta,w Tho powon Co,ho,
.rellne PfeNef'eu io'"t. NV iso"A s ~, :.
lie Church however, nus never accePte" :.
in principle It's impossible that 1t should
do 50. II simply eui,trcs It, by the force OF
,,,,,,;. fon;n;on ro,or ~ tho notion
puD''S L'P''o"' - :. -. :, :,
that one religious party must not carry on
any active propagandisin among the
others. II IL surprising how deeply root
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grown up since, amer inc great heiorli'a.
ton, the Catholics and Protestants had
fopobt ont their long and bloody battles
III -, "a 10. A., ,a,,,,o a, So,,loment and
anu ea'liie U. iuS' :" 'e'H's VI
peace. This now Is mine ana TINS IL
yours; you keep yours; keep mine and
40 let IL remain-no interference" This,
H. ,J.;, ,or,Is wou ,Lo rosr,t and the con.
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clusloni Dut II was not inc worn i'of '''e
spirit OF the gospel.
The rosuIt WASH Orowinp shirt of inaction,
of indifference. Of death OF forl,earance
and tolenncc ~ error. II came to this,
finally where il vet very generally re.
mains that Il IL enough for n man 10 be
anv Kind Of n proiessed Christian, of he
only lives rirht'-a nil il we'll; and that it is
unnecessary and olious TO change ones
form If faith or seek to change in Others.
The Catholics / have said' did not 80
genarniiv accent this as protestants; they
eonId not
This mise notion IL one of the serious
d;fIicnlt;es In tho wnv oi the breaking in OF
The truth oi tho trlie eyaprelization. II
ia n fatal iniifFerentism. II Is amazing
how ieenIv rooted this iilea came 10 be,
oven Smo1o s,,ch men as The Protestant
ministry where We would have looked for
h"ttcr tiinys When Old DR.. Krummac-
Ler Tho oreat court PREACHER of Potsdam,
said tbat be had no objection TO Baptists
n ,r among his ilock, that 1t was
their rigbt n wns regarded n very wonder
mi thing Among the mass OF the people
ihora reions IN tRis hour an indignant
taeliny aTIinst ony pronaeandism from any
onorter lint i;stIirbs the peaceful old reli-
I;ons relations oi men. fls.l ri
Vbon Tho Me,hodistsr first came into
Germanv thew claimed 10 have no desire
" 'nstaL,;sh now senrate Conversations:
,Sov Janlorad ,LotItbev aimed only 10
10y NSN'"'S -
and 10 they sought to quiet all fearful APP
prebensions This, however, was i'm
practicablc. and could not, and did not,
hi long. They finally formed, as else
where, separate societies. What the
Methodist al first protested, was to follow,
only more elIactuaily, in the steps Of the
German pietists. OF lie school OF Spencer,
whose opiy aim was, to seek TO awaken
men 10 real piety in the churches; and
from tS;s Gr,i never deyiated. The Bap-
t;sts fthough they have never nsed this
nomst nnder the lead OF Oncken were fore
cd from the stern logic OF uieir position, to
break at once with this old notion, and to
form senrate congregations. whatsoever
comes 10 This old Continent as an evange-
iist TO preach the primitive gosple, Will
have IN meet with this formidable resis.
tance among the people.
II Is vet a formidable barrier; but II Is
giving way, as many old ideas, before the
Tesistiess progress Of greater light. The
events Of the last hali.century have taught
the people more and more the right to
change ones religious views, involved in
the greater and more primary right OF eve
nv man to hare before God, his own reli-
gious views and that all this involves in
eyitably also the right to propagate ones
religious views. As q principle, II Is becom-
ing generally conceded among Protestants,
that religious liberty is the greatest and
most sacred liberty, and that this necessa-
rily involves the right OF religious propa-
gandism. The principle Is gained; 1t Is a
certain conquest over past darkness; the
practical consent only Is hard yet to secure
with the many. Is it not yet 50 even with
many In our own free land? Yet this
practical consent, too, will and Mttt come
BY and by in its own good time. We must
wait with hopeful patience, as God waits.
This very question, precisely AZ ] have
put it, In It's inoxomble logic, rs an inevi-
table principle and law OF common free
dom. has been grandly declared and dis
cussed in the. French legislature, in the
Senate md the Chamber, Ithas been vic
torIousjy affirmed aud proclaimed as a
most sacred right and duty oven, which
no human power had the right to limit ex-
cept with the common, universally conced.
ed bounds OF public order and morality.