Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-22
RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION.

E6LltiiCUS bAFhEoSluN.
Many an Israelite, full of modern science
and modern ifreligion, has an intense ab-
borrence for the word "piety," says the
Je,cish Tribune. ITO be pious is to him
irdenticsl with "to be ignorant" Still
these so.called half.enlightened gentlemen
have not the slightest conception of the
true meaning of piety. They obviously
mistake the greatest power for good in
man for that human weakness which man.
TESTS itself in his inconsistency and blum
dering hypocrisy. While the manifesto
tions of pious heart may be summed up
in the brief maxim of Glove of God and
man" they nevertheless must needs branch
off and spread through every word, act and
thought of man. Piety and purity are
identical. Iraelites who sheer az the word
"piety" have, as a rule, no regard and no
use for purity.
Says the London Truth "a bitter
quarrel has suddenly sprung up between
Lord Butte and the Presbytery of Rothe-
say, which is likely to be fought out in the
law courts. More than century ago the
first Lord Butte built chapel in the
grounds of Mount Stewart, which for two
generations was used as the parish church,
and the worship was always maintained
there until the present Marquis became a
Catholic, when it was closed. 1t is now
proposed to reopen the chapel as Catholic
school, and the whole island is In d fame
at the notion OF such sacrilege. The
authorities OF the Scotch Church dispute
the right of the Marquis to appropriate an
edifice which was so long under their con-
troll to any such purpose. The reported
10y az the birth of the heir has been very
eyanescent-in fact, it never really ex-
isted, for Lord Butte Is far from popular on
his estates.
Esther Remand has been expelled from
the French convent which she had en-
dowed with her fortune. She was not
guilty Of INSTRUMENTATION nor careless in
observing her vows. She was simply the
victim of disease which tortured her day
and night and disabled her from all work
The Superior decided that she was use
less mouth and expelled her. She was adj
vised by counsel that it was useless to
think of recovering the ondowments that
she had made, but that she might perhaps
compel the convent to receive her back.
She, therefore, applied to the Court of
Appeal at Bessancon for refrigeration
mana 0ailitari. The tribunal declaring it.
self incompetent, she went to the Court
OF Cessation, which has decided that the
Superior of the convent, in virtue of an
article of the statutes for internal regula.
ton, has power to expel any nun she
pleases. Esther Renaud is, therefore, now
an invalid pauper.
Only Eve of the l25 young men gradu-
ated this year at Yale propose 10 enter the
ministry. Facts like this are the cause of
much sorrow in the UNCONVENTIONAL educa-
tional boards. The indication is a hopeful
one, and is seen in connection with the
graduating classes of other leading col
leges. The result will be better than If an
army of incompetents crowded into the
ministerial ranks with no other capacity
than their good intentions. To curtail the
over supply of young ministers for a few
years will be TO give chance TO those who
are in the work, and to show the churches
that If they want good talent in their pull
pits they must be willing to pay decent
price for it, instead of keeping the pastors
on starvation salaries. A few wealthy
churches give handsome salaries, but the
average pay of the pastor who is not a
man of extraordinary talents is from one
tenth to one.half of what he would earn
in almost any other profession.
The Charchman, which is the leading
organ of the High Church wing of the
Episcopal Church, takes up the cry against
the committee who whitewashed ex.Shep.
herd Convey, and is very severe in its re-
buke of what it considers a disgrace to the
church. The Observer devotes nearly
column to an editorial In similar strain.
All the religious papers which refer to the
subject regard the action Of the committee
as open to the most severe criticism.
Meanwhile, the ex-Shepherd himself comes
before the public with an appeal for money
wherewieh to publish new testimony,
which he declares to be greatly TO his
credit. He wants to show that his trial
and conviction were the result of the
machiuation of his enemies, who hired
children and others to perjnre themselves
in regard to the alleged acts of cruelty.
It is understood that Cowley's appeal for
funds has not yet resulted in liberal flow
of the contributions of the benevolent.
The Episcopal Convention lately held in
Danville, Va, passed resolution affirm
ing that the time has now come when
the clergy should recognize the fact that
negroes within their parochial bounds are
an integral part of their parochial work,
and that such work cannot longer be ig-
nored or neglected" This looks as if the
reverend clergy of that region had re.
garded the Divine commission to be for
the sole benefit of the white folks, and had
thought it good to let the colored popula-
ton take whatever chances of salvation
might remain after the white people
should be provided for. The statement of
the resolution that "the time has now
come" looks as if the time for effort In
behalf of the negroes had not arrived until
now, or recently, and as if some special
dispensation or new revelation had been
made known admitting darky souls to the
blessings which have hitherto been the
exclusive portion of those of fairer skins.
Whatever may have gone wrong IN the
past, it is cheering to know that salvation
| is now to be offered to colored folks as
well as white.