New-York tribune., 1881-03-27
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

report on the working Of prohibitory laws and
inebriate asylums In Canada and the United
Boston. He said that after reading carefully
aud thoughtfully DR.. Crosby's lecture he found
it to be anything but q calm view and when
he considered further the replies to that lecture
by Dr. Mark Hopkins and Mrs. Foster one OF
his long standing ipsular prtiudices at least
had disappeared. MIR. Pbllipss statement 10
his lecture to the naughty Episcopal Church ana
it's slowness in the movement had also moved
the speaker to reply to DI. Crosby TO show
where the English Episcopal Church did really
stand. DIR. Cr0sby's hard words applied to total
abstainers, the speaker believed, has done
great injury. A special committee ,had been
appointed in England recently to inquire into the
extent of intemperance. the reasons for II, and
how it could be Iemedied. Tie wretched con-
diti0p of English homes disclosed by the In.
VestigatiCns OF this committee was detaled, ana
it was declared that the Church OF Engiand,
with its countless resources, was just the power
to grapple and deal with this great curse OF
society. The misnomer evident in calling
houses for selling strong drink licensed vict-
uaiing houses, led 20 the conclusion that the
multitude of public houses strengthened IN
temperance greatly. and vivid description
was given of the enormous evils wrought by
these houses upon society and the home.
Within late years an intense feeling has been
growing I'D that there shall be at least one day
in the week when the liquor shops shall be
closed, especially when the same law is enIorceu
concerning other and respectable trades. The
enforcement of the prohibition laws in Toronto
was described, ard tneir successful working
and the speakers experiences, while riding
along the elevated railway IN New York IN the
observation Of liquor saloons open on Sunday
and the disregard of the fact by the police, were
narrated. The same state OF things 10 English
cities IN the past has prevailed, but the estap"
lishment of the coffee house has wrought an
indescriDable change for the better, there being
now forty-OD OF them In Liverpool. lie
society previously described has looked upon
this temperance work from The very first as
religious movement, an aspect OF the question
which is greatly needed everywhere Tor the
most successful progress. Numerous distln-
guished men of England have rallied TO the sup
port of the cause among whom canon farrar
is prominent The chairman of the Committee
on the Revision of the New Testament has also
joined the cause, followed by the Bishops, Of
Durham, Rochester, Exeter and the two Will
beIforces. In closing the speaker presented
general resume of the great points OF the tenn
peTance question, and alluded to the tremen-
dous odds with which the cause has to contend
in the agony aud wretchedness Ut the home
wrecked by this sin ; in the ruin of countless
lives, and In the univ eTsal combination OF the
two great evils of drunkenness and sensuality,
all of which must be met by an organized force
moving by united efforts, both OF England and
America.
IMMORAL INFLUENCES OF MILITARIsM.--At
recent meeting of the standing Executive
COMMITTEE of the Society OF Friends, held IN
London, several speakers brought forward the
subject of the evils Of the immense armaments
of Europe, in reference to their influence as
causes of an extreme amount OF SIN and lmmo-
rality. While it was admitted that the Pc
cuniry burdens of these armaments, ana the
great amount of personal and family suffering
caused by the system of consumption, were also
serious results of the prept nderant milltarism
Of Europe, yet it was felt that, after all, tneir
gravest evils are the dishonOr to God and the
EXCLUSION of so many souls from the Heavenly
Kingdom OF holiness and purity, accustomed ny
them. The sins of idleness, profanity, 1cen'
tiOusness prostitution, cruelty, and general nre-
ligion, which adhere so inseparably to army ana
baIrack lite in all countries, constitute the
strongest appeal to awakened Christians, 1Or
their own endeavors to diminish, In however
small degree, the uBgodliness and wee when
are thus ruiulng innumerable sOnls and lmperil-
ling multitudes of others. IT there was, among
the rulers and populations ot Europe, or even
belief in the Divine declarations that the per-
Detrators of the sins and vices specially fostered
nv military life can net inherit the Kingdom
OF Heaven" and "can not enter into " the Gel
estial City, there would be greater earnestness
in devising and carrying out efforts to stay the
progress Of this destructive plague. The
speakers referred to pacific endeavOrs as being
of a three-fold nature I; first, those conducted
by individuals, under personal sense or tDelT
private responsibility to God secondly, the
Joint efforts of religious bodies, or Churches;
and, lastly, tho ordinary operations OF Peace
Societies.
DR.. CRosBY's ERRORS. The Rev. DR.. r. w
Patterson read an essay before the Presbyterian
ministers Of Chicago, on Monday last, critically
reviewing the arguments advanced DJ the heV:
Howard Crosby against total abstinence, and
forcibly presenting the stalwart temperance
side of the discussion. He took the ground that
DIR. Crosby had stepped beyond the confines OF
his hitherto excellent reputation, and not only
fallen into error, but been guilty OF SANDER In
declaring that certain eminent and Dhlanthro-
pic men had "twisted the Scripture to make
il condemn any soft OF drinking. He MAN.
tanned that DIR. Crosby's claims were uneenaole'
for when he held that drinking should be In
duleed in moderation so as to strengthen the
moral charncter to withstand temptation, he
might as well proclaim that obscene literature
should be universally circulated SO tnat people
might read it and learn to restrain their perni-
cious desires. Drinking was simply species OF
self-indulgence and to say that i6 should DC
allowed in moderation was equivalent to saying
that the taking of opium or arsenic In small
quantities was not injurious but strengthening
to the moral character. Dr. Cr0sOys dehiM
that moderate drinking leads to intemperance
was illogical, inasmuch as it was sure that men
only passed to inebrety Though the stage OF
moderate drinking Advocates OF total aDstl-
nence did not claim chat all moderate drinkers
BECOME drunkards, but that the indulgence OF
the appetite involves o persistent inclination
toward an increase or that appetite; IN other
words. that the tendency Of sO-called temperate
drinking is toward incorporate drinking, just
as the phrase " % road to Milwaukee dues not
necessarily mean that every man who travels
that road will get to Milwaukee. but shat II a
man keeps on upon that road he Will invariably
reach Milwaukee.
CREEps.-Dr. Leonard Bacon disclaims N
The CoRgrcgdtionalist The responsibility OF tell
ing the Congregational Creed Commission what
they are expected TO do, but is confident that il
they go about then work intelligently they will
find it necessary to determine at the outset
whether to make simply and purely Christian
creed or distinctively sectariaD creed.
creed, in the strict sense 0f the word, is one
thing; and doctrirsl syllabus, or theological
compend, is quite another thing. and is called
among Protestants a confession of faith. The