New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-22
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION

If there is auv one denomination IN this country
which than any OJheI has III us seII-polsi ing
worn cant phrase to death j. is-let Us sly ~ as
respectfully as posi- be-the nltaThn; ana 4h pet
ca NJ assumption that It, small rs II IS, ana on the
whole, rather glad to be, has been the leaVen 80
TO speak OF the religious body OF lhe WHolo
country The thing is gettine To- De positively Ilc-
ulous The tail Of tue comet Is not nearly so tnih
As Is this sort of apology for the comparative leg-
Ii the Rev Robert COlyer should come across spLi7
piece of threadbaTe cant in use among the eVangeI-
zeal churches as badly over taxed as TINS ha OeeH
ne would make haste 10 Law II Oh the nIudle OI MS
Nil ana Lit in with as hearty a blow a. stout
.nlithv could give IL. Come now. 90 say u o9l
once tor all that your little handful OF chuTces ~
,ust a httle bir.er than the century We I'VE IN !;
;heu. put in some fresh heaven. anu let Us see 10
work. and show itself by It's own IIsiAs - He
Advance.
Tbera was on a certain church which has 4 cer-
tain treasurer WhOse custom II Wa, !iHihe"IaIcL'
at,er every service, TO count the collection N -
If the amount was small, he would ash the pastor
Aren't You feeling well to-day IL seems TO me
voa didn't preach a. wei. usual. ii tle aiIouuU
was large he would be proiusc III rs colPl'meu1S
and praise OF the good serWou we 4!l tn4' io'
80 10 HIM the Gospel WAS incoming but
means OF filing the treasury. Ana no was 10.
altogether peculiar. Many an empty Sei ii9.i
NJ. .el most ghly. because iuI church llsleutu
~ il. aud many n strong and full sermon counts LOT
nothing, simply because the audience was s.n4i'
Too many ministers are vtIueui I I2s - 49,, 80,
structiGu the comfort the spultuIl mo tu"' my
yIye to souls but solely according 20 tne amount O
money they bring into the treasury, ~ Tue erU"u
they attract 10 their strN ce7. I'om Wy "
s-Iye God and inamInOu. the very tnIng' OF yea
ora made To fall down aud worship tnc 4dJIer.
Cents aru made 10 weigh more thah sous ne
3lOrayl@n.
The Paw Palmer Testimonial reminds us anew of
the UNEQUAL compensation OF literary labor here
T.; - UIan whose bOrs of Tie zen and pulpit tuOueh
cess,nt Tor more than fifty years, ana Of the hgn-
ost order of merit, have never yielded MIN more
,5en "A bare subsistence. His hymns. some OF
Itch are sunq all over the world and Will De sung
~ tL, rnl OF time have probably never brought
I'm, IN one dollar Whereas Ienny son gets a
Inc, a tine Tor ngllnc song, Glibert grows FieIl
fron ;he profits Of an absurd opetetla' CONF o'oI
- ,,sra- hon lfe receives tens OF thousa nds fOr
inele plsy n hundred move lists are reapAB PilhCe
d" 7ncernes from their ephemeral repet itions OF
I'm ort theme and Professor ltuAley IS oHereu
Sto0 OOO for a hundred lectures IN America W D
have no moral 10 offer except that the mil!lons no
are under obligations 10 Kay Faunei 7hall u q Iitto
70 richten the universe, aud resist ms iaN Oh Po
Gticai ECONOMY. 1.-The Christian lntellgehcer.
The witty National Baptist. quoting the South
western proyerb no iohsr'. nor Jcny the
frufh OF the above, having no experience III tHe
unrsut of persimmOns bat IL - a great uIstaAe 10
suppose that the lonssS5 peeI9 this Ia truth bg
incident II adds for the benefit OF all us readers
Just remember this little incident dear iTienui'
when you in the praYer-meeIus' VI ~ ~ pun
MT < short speech with u man behind IT, ana
r@ith trnth In lt-truth that you back up Dy Your
lie that IS what knocks the persimmon' - he
Sunday School Times.
We want no politico-C ath0lic party IN the
Il.ited States The Church must not here be tht
| victim of the unholy ambitious OF the uuises aht
coianv.-those CUnklinRs and Biaines OF tVrme
| tImes: and while d Catholic has vote he would
be guilty of crime II he should not use that Nou
| 10 prevent individual ambition from mixing tseI
| with the progress Of religion aud making the sue
cess of the one the accomplishment OF the other
| Irhe Catholic Union.