Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-07
RELIGIOUS IN7E1LIsEN

The Church OF the Advent IN Is sion Is
extremely r.tuaiistlc. It's four. ministers
wear cassocks at all times, practice cehba-
cy and live in house by themselves.
The Interior is of opinion that "revival-
lists at best DO no more than apply match
to dry wood which has been hewn aud
gathered by retiring and modest laooiers
for the Lord.
! II shows the progress OF true views IN
regard TO the Sabbath as 8 rest day that
houses in the st. Roch Quarter in Paris on
the Lords day.
| a religious journal Oosefves; ''There are
! two classes OF people in the church: the
one is made up of those who do the hard
work OF the church, the other of those who
sit by the fire and fad fault
A German in New York, it is said, who
applied for baptism by immersion, when
asked il he hsd never been baptized he
fore, replied, % Saust 4 leetle' referring
TO the reception of the ordinance BY
| sprinkling.
a memorial TO the Archbishop of Can
terbury, which has received over 2, 900 sig
natures, states that while the signers are
| opinion and practice, ''they feel themselves
constrained to enter solemn and emphatic
protest against the liberation, within the
Church OF England, of any doctrines or
practices which favor the restoration of
the Ronish mass, or any colorado imita-
ton thereof, any reintroluction Of the
confessional, or any assumption of sacer-
| dotal pretensions on the part of the clergy
i'll the ministration Of the Word and Sac
raments.
Professor Swing says that the Westmin-
ster Catechism contains the graudest def
milton OF God to be found in any language,
but the same digest contains also the most
appalling human destinies for many souls
that can be found in any known literature,
and in such crisis society naturally &C
cepts the definition of the Deity ard 5hen
works changes upon the idea OF hell until
the two strings sound in harmony. Ra-
tionalism does not destroy religion, but
only tunes the old discordant harp The
age comes with twofold good, a better
Christian philosophy and the discovery
that Christianity is chiefly life.
Bishop Hunt takes a most encouraging
view OF the religious prospects of the great
| West, and Of Methodsm in particular He
says that ministers in Western Kansas
have had much to contend with, stringent
| times and the general poverty of The PEG.
pie having caused hardships and privstions
to them, not even the hall of which will
ever be known yet they went to the Con
ference with calm, happy feeling, the
outgrowth Of the knowledge that they have
held the fort :" that in place of seeing
their work languish and die on their hands
! they have seen it make an onward pro
| gress as gratifying as it was deserved.
a singular scene was witnessed recently
in Landegian church, which is attached
to the Welsh living of Beanmaris In con-
sequence Of complaints of neglect of duty
against the rector, the Bishop of Bangor,
after commission of inquiry, himself IL
censed curate for Llandegfan. The Gu
rate, accompanied by the Bishops secre-
tary, attended morning service, but the
rector refused to allow him TO offieiste, and
from the communion rails protested strongly
against the Bishops procedure, stating that
he was in charge of the parish and would
not permit intrusion. He subsequently
padlocked the church door and gates. The
churchwardens broke the locks, and the
Bishops cuTate oficjated at the afternoon
service.
The Church Times English HI h Church)
grants, for the sake of argument, that the
| Archbishop OF Canterbury is right in call
ing Ritualism Semi Roma1ism " Z" But
surely" it rejons, eff the half which is
not Roman includes national autonomy, an
open Bible, vernacu!ar services and con.
gregational worship: married clergy, and
the abolition Of compulsory confession il
it includes the rejection of purgatory, in
dulgences, invocation Of saints, the religious
use of images, the worship of relics, and
the traffic in masses If it, IN short, in
wolves the acceptance of the Prayer Book
and Articles-the most reverend prelate
must admit that halt Popery is so utterly
different a thing from Popery pure and
simple that nothing he could say respect
ing the one would be in the least appiica-
BILE to the other. We are quite willing to
grant, If any one likes, that our Church
manship is modified Popery, but then it is
Pupery modified in the precise manner and
the precise extent that the Reformation
Settlement was intended to bring about"
" Cold dead rmalism, says Mr.. Moody.
lis what Is making infdelity. There is
too much Journalism in both the Catholic
and the Protestant churches. Healthy
Christianity is not Journalism. The adop-
ton of the principles OF Christ is what we
90 in for. As to the investigations of sci.
entists and the ideas of called philoso-
pliers, we heed them not. We believe in
God by searching. / was sceptic once
when l was young yes, was an ignorant
sceptic. l could not give scientific reasons
for my doubtings. In my Judgment all
intelligent sceptics' are really ignorant
sceptics. All the scientists and material
lists couldn't shake my belief. The truth,
the genuine truth, is what the world wants,
and it is we, not the sceptics, who can pre-
sent it. Yes, if man is sceptic, let
him be out and out like Ingersoll. Wen
know where he is then. l don't ike hypo-
critics. The coming contest is between
those who believe in a hereafter and those
who don't The quicker it comes the bet
ter. We believe that, by the help OF God,
we will not 90 under in that struggle.
Truth must conquer and we have got IT.
James Paul Coboett, the son OF the cele-
bra;ed author of the 50 Political Register
and g Rural Rides" who lately died, was
barrister and writer. Among his works
are A Ride in France and "Tour IN
italy," in which he showed an interest in
agricultural facts. His elder brother,
William, was known as legal adviser of
debtors in the Queens Bench. John Nor
gan Cobbett, lately deceased, was member
for Goldman, and was considered rather
erratic. Annie Cobbett, who used to act
as the amanueusis for her father, died
about two years since. She was the
author of few useful books. The last of
the family died on the 1lth instant, having
survived his father nearly forty-six years.
Indiana has 100 students at the three
higher institutions Purdue University,
the State Normal School and the State
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