New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-01
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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Sunday Professor SWING tnus uenheu INC 10
ligious needs of the present age OUR DAY ASKS
for a SPECIAL teaching of the doctrine or Gou
and asks for an enthusiasm that shall help wake
q sleeping land. A large part OF the strengtn
of the popular speakers and writers against
all religious faith lies in their zeal and ANNA
ton more than in their argument WIZ anec-
dote irony, courage and wonderful ylvacity
combine and make up an eloquence tIat enter
tains like band OF music. L hs present gen
Grafton is fond of excitement-excluement thau
has smile in it, rather than one that has tears.
Hence the light drama draws the multitude,
and the games and the festivals call OUT INC
swarms of human beings, and those speakers
who ridicule we'll the geology OF Moses ana the
theology of the dark ages gather up converts ny
the thousand. The modern ship Oh thouguo
sails in a stiff breeze, and where there is no
such gale the vessel makes no harbor put de-
GAYS in a stagnaut sea. 1t thus becomes the
men of the Church, preachers or laymen' 10
pour into their arguments mole Of o 'e eo ~S ona
lived upon the dignity OF its attitudes ana up
turned eyes, and the blackness OF Its cioth.
While it was thus p0sturing before the altar
the congregation has slipped out into the iresh
air to find the life Of humanity or the inde-
scribable richness of the fields where there are
| no vain repetitiOns. In some OF the costly mis-
sails of the old Roman Church there are many
picturcs in life colors, showing the attitude tue
| priest should assume at certain polh's anu
crises of the service. 1t is therein shown
how the arms should be raised Ia Tue
celebration of the mass, and BOW the holY
robes should be received and be surreh,
dered by the ceiebrant. Thus that age mad
a volume of positions and motions aud ex-
pressions and reposes, and when down upon
that childish period swept Voitalre ana DIS
| laughing allies, the Church was powericss OF
| re- tional speech. Professionalism was IN advance
from childhood to manhood, from form TO
reason, but its dignity to-day is too 'nuch tllat
of the owl rather than that OF the eagle. ne
| ology sits in sublime composure, scepticlsm
scars with. courage and AMBITION"
Az IxrrprsTING RFI1NION.-An effort has
been made during tie last four years 10 eau
together the Christian workers OF the late war.
An invitation has been sent out 10 very many
reading thus aAll chaplains, Sanitary ana
| Christian Commission delegates, or act7e
| Christian workers during the late war, con-
nected with the armies North or South, are wei
come to our reunion this year "a, at Ocean or9ve,
n. j., July % to "a. 1883" This Is signed 9y
Foster secretary. This invitation has called
three interesting meetings, two at Chautauqua,
and one at Lake Bluff, near Chicago. Inc Cd,
| iect of these meetings Is stated thus oy one vi
| The members GAS we were the messengers OF
| mercy to the suffering during those dreadful
| wears of carnage, ought we not to do all I'D our
DO wer to unite the bands OF brotherhood so
ruthlessly severed. There is growing feeling
! of friendship, and fIaternal ties are stronger
| to-day than for the past thirty years. we as
| Christians ought to cherish these with The
| warmest love. We cannot consider our llic-
work we'll done unless their Is In the body OF
have been very successful and the coming
gathering promises to be the largest and best oil
all.
RRAuyA SoNAJ MIssIoT.-Whlle the mis-
sonaries of the Christian Church are IN India
| busiy engaged In the important work OK teach
ing the natives the only true religion, MT;
! Chunder MoZoomdar, an eloquent apostle OF
the Brahma SOmaj Church OF Cod Is In Eng
| land endeavoring to teach the natives there the
only true religion as he understands IT, me
London Echo thus comments on tins iact ::
aWhen we see England sending missionaries
tn India. who will dispense medicines for the
! body as well as the Water of Life for the soul
and when we see India sending missionaries to
England to teach Englishmen the oneness oil
all truth. that the leading principles oil all
religions form one ideal, that the great
| prophets of the world form one hierarchy, ana
| that the leading disciplines and sacraments or
all religions form one great spiritual cuitus
| when we see this mutual effort Tor the mutual
con version of two continents, 1t is to be hoped
that we are getting little nearer the millen-
num-"
TRASHY SUNDAY-ScHoOL BooKs.---At the
June festival of the Chicago congregational
Club which took place few days ago, Pro-
fcssor A. Kirk made some remarks Oh the sub
iect of good reading for children that ought to
he widely read. After calling attention to the
evil tendencies of much of the popular litera-
|
Sunday school library was not made uD OF good
hooks. but the merest trash, and they should be
burned The books III the Sunday school were
not the works OF cultured men, ana tney were
not such books as children should he allowed to
read The young ought to have standard books
i'm history, biography, and poetry. lhere
should be reading room In connection with
every Sunday school. The superintendent, and
in fact all the officers of the Sunday school,
should be paid for their services and then e1-
pected to attend to their duties faithfully.
Az ATTEMPT AT USIoN.-Among the note
wortby things done at the anniversary meet
ing of the Home Missionary Convention at
Saratoga WAS the appointment OF special
committee 10 meeta similar committee Sole
tied from other Christian denominations 10
hold a Comfy Convention and agree upon
certain principles in Church extension work IN
the West, whereby sectarian competition ana
the needless multiplication OF churches ana
waste of men and money could be ayerted. lt
is to be hoped that the various denominations
of Christians which haze been loudly express
ing a de sire for unity, will show by meeting
this committee with similar committees thaC
they are willing to follow up their words WIN
some practical action.
The Society of Friends in England has just
repealed the prohibition OF the marriage OF hrst
cousins, which has been in force in that body
for nearly two hundred years.
st. Andrews parish, Philadelphia, is soon to
begin the erection of new church ediice 10
cost $4,000.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION
There is a great deal of loose talk afioat on relig-
IONS su objects that will not boar investigation ana
while il is doubtless true that the Church has cher
,bed and is still cherishng supersitions which in
trllloent man have outgrown, IL does not follow
taat her foundations giving way or that by the
prgcress of intelligence the reasons for her exs
fence will le removed. Those wbV imagine that
, worship itself is superstition proceeding from no
| ant of Tafu
Christian temples that dot our hills and wales are
likely sither to be torn down or turned To mere
secular and scientific uses. are cherishng delus-
ion as baselsss any that crept into the heart
of any monk of the Dark s.-lChrstian Register.