The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
SUNDAY NOTES AND CHURCH
CHIMES.


Cardinal Manning acts, and must
feel, like another pope in England.
He sets very high premium on his
conversion, as though it were a living
sacrifice; whereas, If he has found Il
better church he ought to rejoice.
And, as his own act expressed the
courage of an honest conviction and
crossed broad and deep theological
chasm, he should respect change Of
opinions or sphere of activity in 9TH
ers. But he has never forgiven his
nephew, DR.. Auderdon, or Father
Humphreys, for going into the Jesuit
ranks. And the affable, courtly Mon
signor Capel has made his peace at
Rome, where he was under clouds
which had fioated across the channel
after the storm raised against him
by the austere and autocratic cardinal.
st. Paul Dispatch: There is no
superstition in the acceptance of rev.
elation equal to that of the modern
idolaters who dethrone .Vishnu and
enthrone protoplasm. There is no
credulity in the acceptance of revela-
tion equal to that of those who invite
us to accept a limited infinity, per-
sonal impersonality, human divine
ness, and like irrationalities of incon-
sequentialism. There is no bigotry in
the acceptance of revelation equal to
that fanaticism of hereSy which, hav-
ing beVeled the edges and rounded the
corners of unwelcome truth, seeks to
ostracise all who repudiate its infali-
bility. There is no blindness in the
acceptance of revelation equal to that
monstrous egotism which shells itself
up in pretentious conceit and refuses
audience to those voices from abroad
whose echoes roll from soul to soul
and grow forever and forever"
The Rev. NJ. j. Savage, of Boston,
preached a sermon on Herbert Spen-
GERS philosophy, in which he said that
the great philosopher had laid at the
| feet of the church secure foundation
had never been able to win by all her
conquests. Evolution teaches us that
this divine life, this mysterious power
of order, is at the very center and heart
of all things; it teaches Us that the
more we study, the more deeply we
investigate, the higher our zeal, the
more of this order we shall discover;
it teaches the brain and the devout
spirit to keep step and take hold of
hands and recognize their eternal
brotherhood; it teaches US that the old
world is not complete yet, and that,
therefore, we may hope that there
shall come the solution of many a
| problem that still weighs heavily on
the heart; it teaches US not to judge a
structure when it is only half built.
We must look on and up, certain that,
as the world has climbed step by step
from the lowest beginning to
this present height, it will
still go on and up forever
A new religious society is receiving
some attention at Berlin. 1t calls it
self the peoples Church Party" and
is composed of the non-latitudinarian
members of the Prussian church. lay
and clerical, Ten articles of religion
were adopted at the outset almost
unanimously, one of which abolishes
the present VOW of the clergy at ordi-
nation and substitutes general prom
| ise to ''teach and preach the Christian
religion in the spirit of its founder -
| Another article insists upon the eX-
tension of the right of free choice of
the clergy to every congregation; q
| third demands 'the strengthening OF
the independence of the congregation,
the free administration of the property
of the parishes by the parishes them
selves, and the abolition of clerical
privileges. Another article demands
the setting free of cemeteries and char
ity aids from all restrictions OF creed
One of the preachers was only lndig-
nant at the charge that the population
of Berlin was ''irreligious," holding
this new cooperative movement to be
evidence to the contrary.
The Protestant Episcopal church OF
the Evangelists is again IN hot water
the heat this time having been kindled
by coal and gas bills which the ac'
counting warden refuses to pay. The
reason for this refusal is that the war
j den and his friends are opposed to the
/ action and the belief of the rector
i the Rev. Mr.. Percival. They he is toe
i high church. The mode OF lowering
his ecclesiastical position is 20 try t6
freeze him and his congregation out
bv withholding furnace-heat and gas
lirht. The rector, determined to fighl
II ont if it should take all winter, tool
M special collections for money Il
hnv fuel and lights In this he is op
posed bv the low churchmen. who sa,
That he has no right to ask th'