The Bottineau pioneer., 1886-11-11
RELIEF, RETRENCHMENT, RE-
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fullest capacity on Tuesday evening,
The occasion being the regular
monthly meeting Of the Bottineau
Temperance Society, it being also
known that the Rev. Mr.. Planette,
the presiding elder of the Grand
Forks district, was to be present and
make one Of his characteristic exhor-
Eations.
= The proceedings of the meeting
were enlivened by the delivery of
lecture by the professor Of Clerical
Ethics, Ethical clerics, Theoretical
ethical clerical christianity and
s'modifed" total abstinence, a member
Of the faculty of the Bottineau theo-
logical seminary recently established.
! The professor, On the clerical ethi-
cal theoretical branch of the subject,
read the answers published in late
numbers of the North American Re-
view to the questions "Why am I a
Catholic" by the Rev. S: M. Brandt,
S. J.-"Why am ! a Methodist" by
the Rev. George R. Crooks, D. D.
"Why am I Churchman" by the
Rev. 7. U. Dudley, Bishop Of Ken
lucky.
AS to a large number of the readers
Of the PIONEER, those answers would
be interesting, they are here briefly
stated, as follows:
The Rev. Father Brandt says;
ale is Catholic because q careful exam
lnationvf the nature and notes or character
istic marksof the religious society founded
by Christ conyince5 me, beyond the possibil
ity Of doubt, that the Catholic Church is
the one true Church established on earth by
Jesus Christ.
The Rev. DR.. Crook, says:
+. ~ am . Methodist because l believe
= Methodism to be the recovery of the orig
inal spirit Of the protestant reformston-
the trne test Of . Christian Church is its
power with the common people and Meth
Sdism is in the right line of progress and
follows the proceedureof original christian
fly.
The Bishop Of kentucky says he is
q churchman or Episcopalian
from PRINCIPLES OF ExPED1ENCY, because he
believes that the system Of the P. +. Church
j best adapted to accomplish tho result for
whose attainment the christian society was
established among men-that by the agency
of the doctrine, the discipline and the wor-
ship to which her ministers are engaged to
eoRform. there is 4 PRloRr largest prospect
that ths victory shall be gained for which
the bait hts been set in array. .
1T would be very interesting TO place
in juxtaposition, the reasons W y
bne is a Baptist, Congregationalist
Or Universalist, but upon these points
the professor said he did not come
there or then to discuss.
1t was sufficient for his purpose, he
said, that out of the several answers
which he had read, the one that he
found most applicable to the question
which he was there to PROFOUND was
to be found in that of the Episcopal
Bishop. That question was "Why
am I temperance man." and by that
he meant total abstinence, no ''modi.
fed" on the side business.
The lecturer then proceeded to state
the circumstances under which he
signed the pledge two months pre-
viously and the reason he assigned
was, from ''principles of expediency,"
because he believed it the best method
by which by the force Of example
and the spirit Of self denial there
exhibited, something might be ac-
complished in the matter Of the
reclamation Of his fellowmen from
the evils of intemperance, teaching
q practical, lesson Of economy and
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elevating mankind to:a higher plane
Of manhood. Ia 414a3.
The professor nunciated his
platform embodying the three princi-
pies Of expediency, viz: ;.
RELIEF, RETRENcHMEsr, REFoRM.
The several ideas, correlative and col
lateral, which these three grand
alliterative expressions emphasized,
were then briefly elaborated by the
theretico clerical lecturer, as follows:
BY rel;ef be included the thought
and object Of redemption and reclaim
ation from al the physical as well as
insral ills that flesh u heir 70. II