New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-12
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

! man Clarke in the first of n course of lectures
delivered mt the Lowell Institute in Boston,
| treats of the comparative theolOges OF Ethnlc
| and Catholic Religions, and talking OF def
mite yet comprehensive definition of religion,
| SAYS: Passing by others, will for the present
| take this Religion is the worship ana service
| by man OF Invisible Powers, believed to be like
! himself yet above himself his definition in
! cludes what is called 'Anmism.' or the worship
! of departed human sOuls-and also at the other
| extreme many forms of Pauthesm. Spiritual
| Pautheism persOnihes the All OF Things, max
ing the universe full OF feeling, CONSCIOUSNESS,
| vitality and purpose. SplnOZa, the arch-Pan-
! thelst declares that we must love God as our
| supreme good that we love God and are
| blessed Shelley, another Pantheist, has a
| hymn TO The Spirit Of intellectual Beauty,
which he addresses as a being who can near ana
answer; an awful loneliness, which can give
more than words express lie says: Let thy
| power supply calm To the lite of one who wOr-
| ships thee Even Fetichsm is included IN
our definition, for the rude stone or block when
| the savage locks on with superstitiOus rever-
| ence he believes TO have an unseen spirit act
| ing through it. 1t is the spirit who Is feared
| or prOpitiated, and not the block. 30 we say
| that Religion is the tendency IN man 70 wor-
| ship and serve invisible beings like himself
| but above himself. This suppOses and includes
| the belief that there Is communication be-
| tween the wOrshpper and the beng wOr-
| shipped by which good or evil may c0me-that
| these beings can hear prayer and receive ser
| wee, ana III urn can seuu uONn Delp OF Mn
| drance, rs they pleased or displeased with
| their WOrshipper. DR.. Hedge says that
| FetichIsm is not materlalism, but 1t is one of
| the first proofs of a spirit III man akin to the
divine that he thus invest inferior and
| even inanimate creatures with the attributes of
| Deity And through all the long ascent of
| thought from these humble idOaters to the
| wOrshippeT of Him who Is above all, through
ALL and in all - in whom we live, and move,
| and have our beng,'-there Is this ore element
| in common, the faith III unseen powers above
| US, but not far from us, with whom we can
speak, who can hear and answer prayer. No
matter how much these thousand religions OF
| the world may differ, they agree IN this teStl-
mOny that man has Il natural INFORM faith I'D
supernatural mowers with whom ne can COM
| mune,-With whom he Is related, and that THIS
life and this earth are not enough to satisfy ms
| SOUL
CHURCH AND STATE.-Dr. Robinson, in his
! third lecture before the Theological Seminary
at New-Haven, considered the relation or the
| Church TO the State. In the course OF his au-
! dress he said Christianity shows no prefer
| ence for any particular form OF government.
| Its whole tendency Is to pure and simple re-
| publlcanism. Ii recognizes the sacred rights
! of the individual. Ii recognizes the rights or
| the loves and weakest, as well of the
! strongest and highest. Not always has 1t thus
| fOstered personal rights. Crystallzed Ia the
| form of the hierarchy, 1t has been the supporter
| of abSOlutism. What, however. it was thus
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not what in its simple and pure spirit 1t aims TO
| accomplish But You may ask, What are the
evidences that Christianity tends to republic
| cansm 1t is said that the civil rights OF Eng
| lad were first obtained 10y the barOns of
| Runnymede in their contest with King John.
| Doubtless Magma ChaTta gave some rights 70
! the clergy, but only to curry favor with the
| Pope. 1t also gave some rights to the humber
! classes but so far ~ they were Ietainers of
| the baron, they were trOdden under foot. Not
! until the clergy Went forth was there grand
uprising Of the English people. England then
| became essentially republican. The Queen
| rules nOmnaly, but the Parliament Ia reality
! What preaching effected for England, 1t has
! done for the American Republic. The long
| process that had gone on from Henry VIII.
! reached its conclusion IN the embarkaton that
! landed the Puritans. Yet was the Church
| dominant. and the State subordinate. 1t Is a
| long period from 1920 to 1776. The princi
| pies Of republican government were clearly
set forth III the election sermons. twenty
years after, John May in his thlrtieth year,
| delivered that discourse that aroused all New
| England and sent its echoes along the shores
| of the Atlantic, penetrating every corner
| That sermon was read by the dlgnltares OF
| Scotland, and on account OF 1t they conferred
upon bin that title which is now scattered
| everywherc,-the degree of DID. The sermon
preached on the sO-called martyrdOm of
| Charles |. clearly announced the principles OF
orr government; aud rs read the sermons
| recorded in BancrOfts history, we are I'M
paratiOn for that form of government which
eliminated in tire spirit Of &C."
CHRISTIANITY IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS,
The Right Rev. Alfred Willis, Bishop of
Honolulu, has come to this country to raise
money toward building a cathedral in the
Hawaiian Islands. In Il lecture delivered IN
Chicago the other day he said that the islands
where his see is established were settled cen
tg1ies ago by natives of India who brought
with them a purer religion than that which was
found there by Captain Cook and his party OF
explorers. Traces OF the old religion showed
that the people believed substantially III the
origin of man rs recorded by Moses Their
idea was that the body OF the first man WAS
made of red clay. and his head of white clay.
Ont of his body the first female was fashioned.
According TO traditions yet extinct, 1t
seemed that the natives believed even IN the
Trinity and in other fundamental doctrines.
They had their deluge, but the name Of the
successful navigator who escaped was not Noah.
By the time the Islands were discovered. how
ever, the religion of the natives had degen-
Grated into idOlatry. The first Anglican ms
sion went there IN the autumn OF lSOZ, III
charge of Bishop Staley. The Roman Catholic
CburCh in the islands dated from 1879, and
now numbered among It's members a. many
rs the Con gre gatlOnallst body. The death OF
Eiu0 Kamebanlcha w., in 1863, was u severe
blow to the infant Anglican Church ana In
1865 the foundation of a cathedral was land as
n memorial to that benehcent monarch. he
King was much of an evangelist himself, hay
inc visited England and having translated the
Book of Common Prayer into the Hawaiian
tongue for the benefit of his benghted people
NIucb had been dO1e for the spread OF educa-
tion. ana number of schools were now flour,
ishins in the country. The priests of the Old
religion exercised great power over the minds
OF the natives and all traces of superstition bad
nnt Leen vet Oblteratcd. It was believed Tor
Instance. that the priests could pray people to
death. and it was the object of the Anglican
Church to substitute for such grOvcllng faith
a living faith in the realities of the Gospel. The
Bishop concluded by saying that 1t was to be
bnnrd that the Hawaiian Islands would yet he
,.til.,nlLIu IN. snlrLlunl tics with