The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-03-05
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9 second rate one, as it is labeled 81
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3 sUNDAY-NoTEs AND CHIMES,
. The Jewish Ministers association
of New York offers prize of $50
for the best essay on the Rise, Pro
ress and Decline of Sadduceeism."
The Christian Advocate has this t.
say regarding the "Moral Power il
the Local Church." "The one grea
need of Christianity now is mora
power in the local church-power owe
its youth and irreligious adherents
and over the community in which i
stands. That there is direful want
of it in many places is evident. A
church is without moral power when
many of its members, or few of them
OF conspicuous, disregard common
honesty or truth in the business of
life, or when disreputable feuds exist,
involving bitterness, SANDER and mali
cious opposition. 1t lacks moral power
when its youth given up to social dis
ippation,i and their parents are will
ling to have it so, opening their houses
and freely giving their money for its
promotion. A church shows this de-
bility when the prayer and other de-
votional meetings are poorly attended
by its members, or when, if numer-
ously attended, the pastor does all the
work, or only few ancient men as
sist him, and that in proliX and mo-
notonous way. The same state is in
Dictated when none OF the unconYerted
attend the prayer meetings. Another
symptom, which is also a result, is
when there are few or no converts, or
when all, or nearly all, are children.
We do not disparage the conversion of
children, but the church that can lead
to Christ children only is weak, and
the future, even of those children, if
they remain in the church, is tc in
kerit its feebleness."
In PASTORAL letter to the clegy and
laity Of his diocese Dr.. Ell1cott, Bish-
op of Gloucester and Bristol, speaks
freely and somewhat sorroWfully of the
condition of the Church of England.
The present quiet, he thinks,is danger
Gus. Advantage is being taken of the
pause, and sinister practices are being
carried on. "PracGices are being in
troduced compared with which lights
and Yestments are innocence itself"
and he specifies reservation of the
sacrament, celebrations of the Euchar-
iSt that are repulsiVe even to advanced
high churchmen studied avoidance of
the use of the New Testament in the
religious teaching IN the parish
careful exclusion of the do
cesion inspector and admission to con-
firmations only on condition of regu-
lar and periodical confession"-prac-
tees, the bishop adds, which are "fur-
lively increasing" Bishop Ellicott |
does not speak without knowledge
of the facts. The bishop concludes
by saying that "sach things as he has
mentioned are snot regarded by the
Church of England as compatible
with her principles, and no amount of |
hard lwork or self-denial can ever
make them So" The so-called "Cath-
Ollie revival" has no attractions for
Bishop Ellicott.
Speaking on the subject of "liberal-
ism," Cardinal Manning said he had
no contention with the broad, equal |
liberalism of that just, benign and |
tolerant race IF men who had been |
foremost in this country for the last |
eighty or one hundred years. and who |
had brought upon the land a reign of |
justice and equality-men who were |
resolved to deprive no man Of his free
dom so long as he did not abuse it, |
and to violate no mans conscience in |
his religion or in his duty to himself |
Or to his children. There was, how
ever, apparently springing up among
them an aggressive liberalism, Dor
roWed from the theorists and consti-
tuition mongers of France in the
worst period. 1t was policy not
founded on the needs and desires of
The people, but upon the abstract the.
Dries and political ideas of pagan re-
publicans, filtered through the ped
antrv of the French revolution.
Such liberalism" he said, "could pos
sess itself of Christian England only
by conquest worse than Scandina-
Wan or Norman"
Prof. Gardner, of the Toxic Mission
school, says that Japan is the children's
paradise. In no other country are the
young people treated with such con-
sideration. Two days are national
holidays for the children. The third |
day of the third month is the girls
festival. In every family you will
find dolls in large numbers arranged |
in one of the rooms reserved for that
purpose. These have been handed |
down from one generate IN to another.
Every mother presents each Of her
girls with doll every time this festi- |
val comes around, and as the dolls are |
never destroyed, in time they become |
numerous. The boys holiday is |
the fifth day of the fifth month. On |
the morning Of this festival, the boys,
after passing under the BARRIERS hand,
with clean shaven heads and dressed
in their best clothes, go to the temple
and offer prayer and then start out
for lark. In front of every house in
which boy has been born you will
see paper fish flying in the wind
from the end of long bamboo pole.
After showing that there are $4,000
Catholic and 121, 1913 Protestants IN the
far Western States and Territories the
Catholic standard adds that great as
is the proportion of the population of
the older States of our Union that has
no religion, that is utterly Indifferent
to every religion, at least to every
religion that claims to be of divine
origin, the proportion of this class of
persons in our newer States and Terri
tories is much greater. If in Califor-
dia, Oregon, Newbraska and Colorado,
the number of persons even claiming
to be Christians, however slender their
interest in religion may be-. varies
from 1 in to 1 in z, what
must be the case in the other regions
of our central and western territories
And this proportion day by day is in
creasing, and that too, with fearful
rapidity. The children of Christian
parents grow up ignorant of religion,
Indifferent to religion, and rapidly
swell this goddess population. 1t is
not Professionalism that in short time
the Catholic Church in the United
States will have to cope WITH. It is
in6delity, not theoretic infidelity. but
practical infidelity, in the shape of in
differentism to all religion"