Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-29
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
A correspondent of the Gwchnlan OBJ


jects to
If should die before wake,
Ipray thee, Lord, my soul to take,
And wants it changed thus:
Ii should die and not awake.
The Christian at York says; " Boston
fully appreciates DR.. Duryea, and his min
istry there is already proving eminently
successful. Never before have such con-
gregations crowded the Central Church on
the Sabbath, or the pews and sittings been
pews the first choice was sold for So, 500 !;
six others brought =, 600 each, and three
81, 500 each, and the premiums ranged from
$3.50 to So For breadth of spirit, Christian
courtesy and charity, commanding elo-
quence, wide scholarship and thorough
biblical knowledge, Dr. Duryea will find
few peers wherever he goes.
The Christian Intel{igencer believes that
the soul of Pope Plus X. is still in purga-
tory, because requiem mass for the repose
of the soul Of Plus TX. was celebrated on
Sunday morning, February Sth, in the Six
tine Chapel at Rome. The Pope entered,
attended by the whole pontifical body and
his Swiss and Noble Guards and all the
members of the Sacred College, the Patri-
archs, Archbishops and Bishops now in
Rome, with the whole of the diplomatic
body accredited to the Holy See, were
present, as we'll as many OF the Roman 10
bility, and such strangers as were fortu-
nate enough to obtain tickets of admission.
The Anglican Bishop of Manchester, at a
recent ordination service, spoke very
plainly on the subject of ritualism. In
PauPs time, he said, men were content to
be experts in godliness, rather than in con-
troversy to be religious, rather than the
illogical. He confessed that it was impos
sible for him to become interested in many
questions which were agitating the church.
1t made no difference to him, strange to
say, what the color or shape of a vestment
was, whether the bread administered in
communion was leavened or unleavened,
whether the wine in the chalice was mixed
or unmixed. None of these things seemed
to him to concern the weighter matters of
the Gospel.
The Independent says, concerning re-
vised creed for Congregational churches ::
$50 far as we have noticed, the purpose Of
the agitators for the new creed has been to
exclude from fellowship certain persons
who regard themselves as evangelical, but
whose belief in the nature of the atone
ment and in the condition of souls in the
next world is not regarded as satisfactory.
These agitators for new creed are very
sensitive, because some Presbyterians per-
haps taunt them with the charge of preva-
lence of heresy among Consregationalists,
and they are anxious to repel the charge.
1t is not to make Congregationalism seem
more reasonable to skeptics, but to make
it seem more orthodox to Presbyterians,
that they desire to have a creed formu-
lated which shall authoritatively repre-
sent the belief of their churches.
The Obsercer says: The proceeds of
Robert IngersolIs lecture on Paine ($l,-
5OO) are to be applied to the erection
of monument to the memory of the
author of the cage of Reason. We sub
nit the following as a just and appropriate
epitaph: "To the memory of the man OF
whom John Adams, President OF the
United States, recorded this opinion !:
Worthless, 'unprincipled,' 'profigate,
'blackguard Paine ; the man who wrote
letter to George Washington, and thus ad-
dressed the Father of his Country ::
'Treacherous in private friendship and
hypocrite in public life, the world will be
puzzled to decide whether you are an apos-
tate or an impostor. This cenotaph is
erected to Thomas Paine by the muniGcent
liberality of his friend and admirer, Col
onel Robert Ingersoll.
To the Sunday-school Of the Church of
the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, the Rev. w. P.
Paxson, the Superintendent of the South
western Department of the American
Sunday-school Union, sends this summary
report of his individual work for the year
ending February Doth: Seventeen new
schools organized, with l0t teachers and
AS scholars 40 schools visited and aided,
having 473 teachers and Ais scholars;
publications distributed by grant and sale
to the value of S5l3 So ; Bibles and Tesla
ments distributed, 2S4; miles travelled,
l6, $50 sermons and addresses delivered,
1877. This work was done beside his su-
perintendence of the missionaries in his
great field The following is summary
Of work Of his department Two hundred
and Twenty-Five new schools organized,
with 1920 teachers and 9,9l4 scholars
3l3 schools aided, having 1866 teachers
and II, 93S scholars total schools reached,
542, having 2,SS6 teachers and q, $50 schol-
ars miles travelled, 46, 1877; sermons and
addresses given, $50; Bibles and Tesla.
ments distributed, 1868; families visited,
l,Sll.