Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-15

ing in the New Testament is uuauthor.
ized, and due to ascetic bias.
The Christian at Work deprecates the
| disproportionate emphasis with which some
teachers condemn the dance, the wine cup,
the card table, the cigar and the theater,
while they forget that lying and stealing
are the sins of the age and the sins of CIV
ilizstion. We ought not to use up our force
on latter.day pentalogue at the expense of
the first claims of fundamental morals.
The short. comings of Buddhism, as COM
pared with Christianity, are defined by
Professor S. II. Kellogg as follows In
Buddhism there is no revelation of the be.
ing and glory of God !: no inspired book
making known the will and purposes Of
God no assertion of the existence of a
human soul no conception of sin as dis.
obedience to the supreme law; no adequate
doctrine of salvation from sin !; and no Joy.
full announcement of blessed and immor-
tai life"
The Independent says "The Congrega.
tionaliSt wants to know how long it will
require for the loose view which we take
of theology to land all who accept it in a
slough of unbelief like that of Geneva {?
Our loose view is that none should be
forbidden on grounds of theological differ
ence to become members or teachers in any
evangelical church who hold the primary
evangelical doctrines of ruin by sin and
salvation through the supernatural Christ
and Christianity of the Gospel. We are
not as familiar with the mathematics of
the Infinite as they are about Boston but
we should think it would require about as
long as it would two diverging lines on diff
ferent planes to meet. Not this year.
How long will the CongregationaIist's high
fences and barbed.wire theory of the
Church be endured by Christian men !?
Not long"
What is true OF certain schools is pre-
eminently true of that fountain head of all
civil, social and moral life, the home. We
may care bat little who bears rule at
Washington, if we are only assured that
God rules the American households. No
stream rises higher than it's fountain.head.
Puritan homes bred Puritan piety and he.
roism. Out of the lowly clapboard of
farm houses of New England, with rag
carpet on the floor, and we'll. thumbed
Bible in each scantily furnished room,
went the earliest missionaries of the Cross
to foreign climes. The intensely religious
| atmosphere of such homes produced the
Judsons, Goodells, Spauldings and Horace
Bushnells of the "homespun age" of
New England piety. From such homes
| flowed such steady stream of consecra-
ted youthful energy into our colleges that
| no complaint was heard of a famine of can
didates for the ministry. And the spot
where the sorely needed reform must begin
that will replenish the pulpit, is not in the
colleges so much as in the household. -
Rev. 7. L. Cuyler.
The Independent says: "With editor
Inskip and the Christian Standard their
last camp-meeting always exhausts the ad-
jectives and adverbs. That at Pitman
Grove, Just ended, was a most extraor-
binary occasion ; the most wonderful
meeting they ever attended; : one contin.
uous and increasing flow of unctuous lit
was always 'unctious a year or two ago]
feeling;' in 'Aunty Inskip's' meetings
there were 100 conversions, and many
believers were also fully sanctifed : while
sister Lizzie Smith was 'wondrously an.
ointed for her work - and the altar work
at the stand was frequently overwhelm.
ing And now for Orchard Beach, which,
we trust, may be the most wonderful
camp.meeting ever held We have no
doubt it will. 1t always is. An editorial
beseeches believers to pray earnestly for
US in view of this next eamp-meeting.
We cannot pray for their sanctifcation, for
they are already sanctifed wholly. Would
it do to pray that they might discover
something in themselves to be humble
over?"
DR.. P Roosevelt johnson writes TO the
| Churchman touching letter printed by
tina. journa! recommending to the clergy q
study of Swedenborg's Religious Writings.
Doctor johnson says: Swedenborg was
typical case of now we'll understood
form of insanity, and his writings are the
production OF diseased fancy. He ex-
perienced what is known as the epileptic
call, which in his private diary he thus de-.
soribes: "A man appeared unto me who
said, "I am God the Lord, the Creator and
Redeemer of the world. I have chosen
thee to unfold to men the spiritual sense of
the Holy Scripture. Myself will dictate
to thee what thou shalt write" His writ
ings after this event belong to the class
known as epileptic visions, to which also
Oahspe and the Book of Mormon belong,
and were composed under the influence of
| q fixed delusion. As an antidote to the
disloyal advice alluded to at the beginning
| of this communication, would suggest
the reading of Maudsley's Essay on
Swedenborg to all liable to be led astray
by his spurious revelations"
That which is true of the individual ia
true Of the church. Its period Of greatest
apparent success is often the period of its
real decline. The church in the catacombs
was more truly church of God than the
church in the caihedrals. The Methodist
Church never did diviner work in Eng
land than when barns were its only meet.
| ing houses. It is q question whether the
Young Mems Christian Associations have
ever done more Christly work than when
they met under a street lamp, or In an
upper loft of commercial warehouse in
London. Itis 30 easy to forget the Christ
and admire the prophet; forget the soul
| and admire the robe; forget the truth and
admire the wonder. This is the peril of
our time; the peril of prosperity the
peril of transferring allegiance from q cruel.
fed Lord to a resplendent church, from q
spiritual life to an external pomp and cir.
cumstance the peril of gsrlanding the
outward and visible sign, not the inward
and spiritual truth, without which the
most magnificent body is but corpse, and
the most respondent robe but shroud.
Lyman Abbott.
The current number of the BibIotheca
SacrG assemblies some opinions of John
Calvin, among which are the following
=" We are dead in Adsm-not by his per.
al Id
tsins not to us, but because he infected all
his descendants with the corruption into
which he fell" "Predestina.
ton is that eternal counsel by which God
adopts some to the hope Of eternal life,
and adjudges other to eternal DEATH
"Man follows his sinful pur.
poses in SHINING. and God his holy ones in
Furnishing him." "Inasmuch as
the conditions of birth and death are alike
to infants which died in Sodom and those
which died In Tarusalenn and thara xy..