New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-23
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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Italy. 1t is undeuiable that Divine Providence
has willed that he should be such. And ii the
rulers OF the Church would listen to st. Paul,
1 rather than to preconceyed ideas generated by
sibe for them to avoid the conviction that it is
their absolute duty as Catholic Christians to be
| good and faithful subjects to the King and
Constitution of their country. I hold any ten
OF e the that be to 6s
admit and accept the fact that he is no longer
| Sovereign OF any portion CT territory ~ "Of
| course ne should. Why not admit an indisput-
able factf II it should in the future be Gods
| will that he should again become a temporal
| ruler he will become SUCH" Aud what are we
| to suppose are the motives and the calculations
OF the men-unquestionably in many instances
men of commanding powers OF mind and intel
ligence--who so obstinately refuse to accept
such q line OF policy as You have indicated r.
STheir bOpes," he replied, ARE based on what
seems to them the probability OF come cata-
clysm in the present political system of Europe.
They think that such may possibly occur in
think that the present advance In the direction
of democratic ideas will reach point at which
it will occasion such reaction as may undo all
that has been done in Italy in the last ten years,
ton. They read the signs Of the times amiss;
for even il there should occur such a reaction
and such revolution 1t will not be such as
would assist their views. At the present time
all the Church has to do Is to preach Jesus
Christ and the religion which he founded; to
struggle for, and gain individual SOULS"
REPLIES TO DR.. CRosBY-Dr. Crosby's recent
arragnment of total abstinence has brought out
numerous replies from all parts of New-Eng-
land. On Sunday afternoon bis address was
reviewed by the Rev. DR.. +. M. Ellis, at Ire
mont Temple, and an earliest appeal was made
to all temperance workers not to take the back
track, but to fight to the end under the old
standard, Dr. Miner also preached in Boston
on the same subject, taking as his text Romans
xiv. %: Happy is the man who cOndemneth
not himself in the thing which he alioweth.'
DR.. Crosby, said DIR. Miner, is new worker in
the temperance cause. He was foremost in the
enforcement of the new Law against drunken
ness in New York City last May, and yet it has
not been announced that drunkenness has
ceased in New-YOlk. Criticizing the definition
that temperance means moderation, not total
abstinence, the speaker said that if the defini
ton was good for anything, it implied that o
man to be temperate must use at least o little
of everything. SO men must use little cnl0rai
or a little tobacco In order to be temperate.
The proper definition ls, that Temperance Is
moderate use of all good things, and total alb
stinence from all bad things. DR.. Crosby OBJ
jects to pledge because it is contract, and
contract in moral matters is unmanly. But he
himself belongs to a Church which requires
pledge from all who join it, and " hat is that
but pledge in moral matters7 DIR. Crosby mis-
represents the total abstinence men, SAID Dr.
Miner, in saying that moderate drinking makes
men drunkaIds. What they do say is that mod
crate drinking tends to drunkenness. DIR. Miner
then took up the Scripture argument as to the
intoxicating nature of wine in the Savi0ur's
time and asserted that it was common thing
for wine to be preserved unfermented.
SURVEY OF PALEsrNE.-The Executive Com
mttee of the Palestine Exploration Fund have
decided upon undertaking q survey of the
country east Of the jordan. The present con-
trct which includes Bashan, Golanitis, the
Hauran, the Lejah Batan8a, Gilead, and Moab,
resembles very much that of Western Palestine
when the survey was first begun, that Is, re-
connoissance sketch maps had been made OF
parts Of the country, but every successive trav'
eller was able to point out the Deficiencies,
errors, and unexpored tracts on the maps.
From Biblical point OF view the associations
Of the country are extremely interesting.
Among these are the places connected Wild
the stories of Balaam and Balak, Gideon, Jeph-
than, the wars of Moab. the siege OF Rabbath
Ammon, the fortress of Kerak, the refuge OF the
early Christian Church., the chronicles of
julius Gadara, HeshbOn Macherus. Callirhoe,
and many other spots. The country is covered |
with ruins, many OF them In wonderful state |
of preservation, and it differs from the West In |
this important respect, that whereas Christian, |
Jew, Saracen, Crusader, and Turk have. one |
after the other, contributed TO the demolition |
of the monuments of Western Palestine. in the
East there has been ono period of destruc-
ton, and one only; and since then the land has
been left to the tribes who wander over 1T with
their cattle, but neither build nor destroy.
CANON FARRAR ON SACERD0TALIsM.-Can0n |
Farrar declared In the course Of recent sermon |
in Westminster Abbey, that the name OF priest
is none SD immaculate and none 80 benehcent IN |
the worlds history as to make US regret that the
New Testament knows nothing OF any mere
human priests, except among the Pagans and |
among the Jews. Who ridiculed Isaiah Inc |
insulting priests of Judah. Who smote Jere..
miah The priest Pashur Who threatened |
AmosP The priest Amazah. Who would have |
torn Paul in piecesq The priests Of Jerusalem.
Who killed st. Jamesf The priest ADnas. Who |
oruoed Christ Tho priests An ns a and Cana
spiritual tribunals With merciless historical
knowledge Canon Farrar graDples the demand
of the Ritlialists for what they call Spiritual
Courts, and shows from the examples OF the Sam
hedrin of Jerusalem, the Synod of Ephesus, the
Inuuistion of Spain, the COnsistOry OF Geneva,
and the High Commission Court of London. how
prone are courts composed of priests to indulge |
in cruelty, injustice, and persecution.
II is stated that the Pope has given instruc-
tions to all bishops in Sicily and the Neapoitan
provinces to compliment the King as their
legitimate sovereign as he passes through their
districts. Some Italian journals see signs that
the opposition of the Church to United Italy IS
slowly but surely yielding to the "unappealabie
arbitration of time" On the other hand, the
Pope in receiving 1000 Italian pilgrims ON
January 6, exhorted them to repel the imputa-
ton of want of patriotism. He urged that Italy
was first lifted out OF barbarism by the Papacy,
which appeased fratricdal struggles and was
the firmest bond OF national unity that ltaly's
interest and glOries were connected with the
Church; that to insult and prosecute it, con-
trary to the religious sentiments everywhere
testified by her public monuments, was not the
path to greatness; that, as shown by history,
such course was leading her to destruction.
He promised them that while they strOye to de-
liver Italy from the revolutionary malady he
himself, like Moses on the mountain, would
pray with uplifted arms for their victory.