The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-09-27
Blanc said they all were.

in London ten thousand self.created
orioles are loud, if they do not burn
the SOUL and that ten thousand
tongues in diverse theology rend in
twain the temple of true Christian
thought, hope, faith and charity.
At this moment all England is
stirred up by this subject, and the
mad passions af q simulated if not a
sanity sanctity is upon Us. The Sit
tings still going on, of the Ecclesi-
astical Courts Commission have not
helped, but rather hindered, the even
tenor of our way, and we find our
selves in a sort Of theological topsy-
turvey state bordering on that
BEwILDERMENr
which characterised Mr.. Dick in his
memorial to King Charles II. Per-
haps all this tends to prove the many
mansions in that kingdom we are all
striving to reach. However, and
apart from any predisposition toward
dogmatic polemics, I must say that
London just now presents marvel
GUS picture of a so.called Christian
metropolis.
Go where you will, you are met by
'preacher'-that most underlined
good man. Talk on what you will,
the subject of sects-that narrowest
of terms to a man and a brother
comes up.
A young lady at 4 o'clock tea, in
mathematical enigma of crochet
work, will attack you on 'consubstan-
tation' as cheerfully as if it were
scandal. A fashionable mamma,
with grown up boys who seem never
to stop growing, will dispute the or.
ign of the Ten Commandments and
espouse the forgerles of Mr.. Shapi.
ra's leather.and-last impossible rem
dition of Deuteronomy! What Walt.
Whitman calls the religion Of the
United States,' and James Parton
considers as his own, will be our fu.
ture theology here. It tells: it pays.
And what IS all this mixture
Is it polemical progress !? Is it all
these2 That London should expe-
rience all this diversity is not strange
if we are to accept DR.. Dolinger as a
prophet. He said-and so has the
greatest of England's diyines said
the same thing-'that the Church of
England did not meet the cravings of
Christianity in London that it was
the church only of I fragment of the
nan IN ;@that it was church for the
fashionable, the rich, the cultivated
and the fine people, and that it taught
with gentle phraseology and lisp,
ingness the religion of department,
of gentility, of clerical reserve, and,
in its stiff and narrow organization
and all want of elasticity, it feels in
London powerless against the mass
es.'
It lacks the healthy, robust attract
iveness experienced in America or
even in the British colonies, for the
reason that it is burdened by a pc
culiar British patronage mostly in
hands of a clique aristocracy. 1t is di
vested of the democracy of America
In London your church and your rule
of life, your Ten Commandments and
your works of faith hope and chari
ty are governed by the beau monde
if you live in Belgravia.
If you would be fashionable ir
your London faith you must study
the West End bulletins that are pc
riodically issued to suit the cOnsi
ence of upper-tendom. One season
you have the Tracts for the Times
that tell plastic theologians in Bel
gravia that what the Dean OF Ches
ter issued for his season is out O.
fashion now. Then the Bishop O
Winchester says something on sea
sonable sentimental workings whicl
the Rev. Blericson says is all wrons
for the time. And the Bishop Of El.
declares one and the other in error
while DR.. Arnold says he alone i
authority. Occasionally a sort Q
general crisis sets 10, and over 60 al
their authorities, fashionable and un
fashionable, and Cardinal Manning
gives his views of the worlds wicket
ways and ''the pernicious fashions Q
Paris" included!
| Verify in the midst of all this it il
hard to be Christian! It is easy t
take up your cross, but how an
whom to follow?
lBY YOUR WORKS YOU SHALL B
KNOWN.
| Were we to take the 10000 Jew
who have regained their local habits
ton and name here. and put them b.
E side 100000 of the best Christian
/ comparing them in their works. "
, should not hold our heads very hig
e indeed, we might lower them. ! as
: sumo there are now residing in Lor
e don 16O, 900 Jews, orthodox and uI
e torthodox. Some statistics say the
/. are 100000 and others only 10000
y I adopt the mean. In art, literatur
9 science, commerce, financial. me
b chandise, luxury. order, temperanc
'. morality, and an honest practice
3, meuma and tuuna, they excel any 15l
=. 900 human beings in this metropol
,e of nearly five millions Of her MAZE
le tvs loyal subjects. / have been Ct
h lecting figures and facts on this su
j. ject, and tne results amaze and mo
i. than confirm me in my stateme
"A Dhcx,o Whoo va oonaidor what