New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-06
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Is Disestablishment wiser Canon Farrar
preaching in London three weeks ago, declared
that the demand for diseStabllshment emanated
from the extremes OF sacerdotallsm and or un
belief. be wished to know it priests and in
fidels had rendered such vast services to
humanity as to justify the entrusting to theiI
guidance of the dcstnies of England. In
fidelity had proved itself the curse, the cOrrup-
ton, and the rum OF every age. Sacerdotalism
had established the ln9uisition and sown the
cities of Europe with ashes and blood. Yet at
their bidding Englishmen were asked to
sacrifice the national profession OF a common
Christianity and to declare that England as
England had no longer the power OF even the
hood, and had no further testimony to offer to
God and to Christ. II think have read OF a
neighbOrng nation" the Canon added, switch
once came to that conclusion, and the example
is far from encouraging. 1t was IN the eigh-
teenth century The mighty Bossuet was dead 4;
had been queDched; Pascal had ceased to
seattle the immortality of Jesuitism with brill
liant witt with the voice of Massillon had
died away the last tones of Christian eOquence.
gone. A withered Sardanapalus desecrated
the crown of France in the chambers OF ST.
Louis, and priests who had turned atheist
kissed as they passed the robe of the reigning
PompadOur. The youth were strong only in
sarcasms against God and shamelessness toward
men, while q crushed ard sulen proletariat
gared their rage at The corrupted society, and
followed in it's wake. Then where the carcass
was the vultures were gathered together. The
whole air was full OF the lush OF their obscene
and greedy wings. First the axe of the gull
otine clanked horribly urOn the aristOcracy
and the throne. Then the reign OF avowed
atheism followed as the natural consequence
of corrupt religion; the solidarity of lust and
murder bes1n to dance it's Rso and
proclaimed alike its nature and its emancipa-
ton by the worship of harlOt on the polluted
affairs of Notre Dame. Then God awOke once
more and with one thunderclap smOte the SAN
hedrlm OF the insurroc ZION. prOstrated the apOs-
trouble and rebuke and blasphemy, hunted
like wild beast to his den, his jaw fIjghtfully
shattered by q pistol shot, himself more dead
than alive i'll the very dress which he had worn
when he proclaimed the Supreme Being at
Metre Dame, was dragged to the scafold, an
old man, amid the yell of univ ersal execratlOn,
approached the fatal tumbril. and said: Yes,
Robespicrre there is God France in those
days had cOntiscated church property, had
abolished her national religion. Were the
that came of it successful II England
swept away the establishment" the Canon
added, ntidelity would whirl them forward
into bOundlesS sceptlclSm or eccleslasticlsm,
drag them back into an unfathomable supersti;;
ton" A notion that never had national
church might flourish, though always AM inev-
itably on a lower level OF blesSedness, with
feebler powers Of Christianity, with wilder
alterations of error than If 1t had One But
for a nation which ever since it was q nation
had had religion openly to proclaim itself
a Goddess and ChIistleSS corporation, and to
declare that atheists might baspheme III the
Minister'S where saints had sung, was to do a
deed OF ignOmlny and shame Which would SINK
Engishmen incOnceiyably below their fathers,
He feared for the nation, not, or course, tor
individual religion, nor even for the Christian
church. 1t was rs "A citizen and not as clergy
man, and still less as q Christian, that he was
anxious and alarmed. If England declared
she had no longer any voice wherewith to
ackno ledge God, she would lose her char
acter, cease TO prosper, and forfeit her place
among the nations.
A BISHOP on RITUALIsM.-In o recent letter
to the ArchdeacOns OF his diocese the Bishop OF
Salisbury has made these remarks on the subject
of religious prosecutions "The controversy
which for three centuries has existed IN the
Church of England between the Catholic and
Puritan parties within its borders, has gradually
gathered around the Ornaments Rubric;' one
side claims the right Of retaining the use OF
the yestments ordered by the rubric OF 1919,
the Other desires to Danish all such usages,
and the clergy who maintain them, absolutely
ont of the church. The other side, ignoring the
slumbering controversy OF more than three
centuries, have sharpened the rubTcs, and es-
tablishcd 10y mere act OF Parliament new
court to enforce them; thereby stirring up so
deep and anxious distress among the quiet
hard working clergy and their congregations,
that We seem to be at this moment face to face
with the danger OF schiSm OF incOncelvably
evil consequence. would say, OF oil things be
patient. DO not pIccipltate action under the
Church Discipline Act and the Public Worship
Regulation Act, 10y challenging the penalties
which they enact. BE content to devote your
selves 10 the sacred teaching of the church in
your parishes. Spend and be spent in the
IL Nln gnttln ~
people with the true food Of the Gospel, and
swelling the ranks of Intelligent and faithful
church people by your faithful teaching 1t
you ale wrOnged, as think you are, by being
forbidden by temporal courts to adopt various
usages which belonged to the ancient universal
church, and are recognized by the rubrc of
1919 do not doubt that there is q blessing on
those who endure suffering wrOngfully, which
may more than compensate tor the loss OF things
which, though cOmcly, and full OF sacI ed teach
ing, cannot be considered really essential to the
grace of earnest aud faithful
Communion. And il, going beyond this
fatherly counsel to my own clergy, may speak
Of the public action which we deeply need, 90
not hesitate to say that the first and greatest OF
needs amongst US is Il larger and lar&er-hearted
within our communion why should
not the Church of England tolerate things which
the ancient church considered good and useful
why. should we try to force an outward uni;
folmity upon men of various habits of mind and
character, agreeing in the great essentials OF
faith aud practicea"
DIR. CROSBY's CRITICs.-Neal Dow writes TO
Tie Boston 1Iurciier Our ministers of great
salaries and much leisure, make the grand |
voyage in Europe, where they find very nice |
people. free and easy in manners; wine very |
rood and very cheap, which everybody drinks. |
On the Continent, there is no temperance cause; |
the clergy, OF every sect, drink freely, and il |
our voyagers have no settled principles OF |
right and wrong they come back to us drinkers |
md defenders from the Bible and from Christ's |
Example of the habit of drinking. / assumed |
that everybody knows, except DR.. Crosby that |
drunkenness comes from the drink. Where does |
hat como frOm3 Through the open door OF
moderate drinking. There comes in lis train