New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-31
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
NOTES OF THE CHURCHES THINGS SAID


AND DONE AT HOME AND ABROAD.
@Tbs St. Paul Pioneer Press appears to think that
new theology the saviours OF religion BUT the
rood Christians of churches will be apt 10 think that
f,s is the view of merely secular person. and therefore
entitled To little or no credit "The very churches
and creed sre being revolutionsed." 1t exciaims
THE new theology everywhere in the ascendant The
old beliefs unchanged in essentials, are being adapt
al in unesseut,as to the intellect heart of the
century In the grand broadening of foundations Is to
ne found witness in the permsnence of faith, and a
promise that the necessary and bene6csnt restraints
with which it surrounds the not to be lost or
abandoned. With we may question
whether the world is not upon the verge OF new snu
crea.er Christian renaissance The churches believe
That they have already gone far enough in the way or
renaissance and if they could do so they would go
back again 10 the old ages OF iaitn-
aThc Churchman is very glad because the Cana
Alan Provincial Synod has enacted canon discoursging
the use of unfermened in the celebration OF the
Holy Communion Although the general public may
not know it, this is one of the burning questions of the
day in MANY churches The Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union recently m~mOrialized the Episcopal
General Convention the subject asking II to enact
law 70 bidding the use of fermented VINE The good
Indies not have known IT, but that Is the very last
thing that the Episcopal Church could be expected TO
do There are tremendous docrina questions involved,
banded down from a misty antiquity and for the
Church to permit the of unfermented wine in the
Communion would be much the same as for 1t to per-
nit non Epsc0pally ordained minister ~ minister at
its altar. The very integrity Of the Holy Communion
n held to depend the of fermented wine and If
men made drunkards thereby, so much the worse
for them
The medical missionaries in India make use of the
tickets which they give their patients Chr isaniz
ing agency These tickets arc described by the Rev:
Jacob Chamberlain. M. D., in The Independent
They given TO the patients and are to be pre-
scented when they come for new medicine They keep
A. h. oft Lest
chance they want to come again and need this in
PRODUCTION As the patient is registered and receives
his number he himself to await his turn for treat
ment and opens his ticket to what directions it
contains inside As this may be the only giimmering
OF truth that will have in .he villages from which
some of these patients may come a hundred miles
away prepared the most concise statement of Chris
tan truth could and printed there. lie reads;
q There is but true God. He created, controls
and preserves all things that exist He is ess But
we ii ed Nth sin He, TO take away our sin. sent
his own Son. Jesus Christ. into this world Divine
Redeemer. That Divine Redeemer Jesus Christ gave
his life as a proptatory sacrifice and whoever be-
eves in him, and prays to him. will receive remission
OF sins and eternal life This Is what the true Neda,
the Holy Bible teaches
He turns the last page and finds qrotation |
from of their tavOrte Telugu poets who wrote SIX
centuries ago For welike did Paul cinch truth
by saying: One OF your own poets has said" DE |
reads in Telugu:
THE soul deaed with sin what real worship pays i'll
And we add below this "To give this very purity
Of heart spoken of by your poet Divine Redeemer
Jesus Christ came into this world. Believe in him"
The Episcopalians not the only Christians who
have recently been proposing a basis Of union with
pther Christian bodies At the American Christian
Convention which recently New Bedford, Mass,
this great question came up. and the following
put forth a. the platform of the Church which they
are wiling 10 stand with all Christians
]. The Bible our only rule OF faith and practice.
~. Christ tie only Head of the Church.
80 Christian character the only test OF fellowship.
"A individual Interpretation OF Scripture the right
and duty OF all
as The union of all the followers of Christ without
as Each local church govern itself"
This looks little simpler than the Episcopal plat
quite as much controversy, and general as 1t IS. II
would exclnde many who sincerely try to be Chris
tians. ana ANXIOUS Tor Christian unity The more
this question of organic Christian unity Is looked
8 made over again.
stOrv is told of a very liberal clergyman who
recently travelling in Dakota and looking about
desirable place in which settle One Sunday he
wild and rude settlement about equally composed of
cowboys and and concluded preach he could
ind q hall Finally through The good offices OF OF
he leading citizens universally known as Old Ping r
lie secured dance hall the largest saloon, and
posters put mp announcing that be would preach
here. On Sunday there was good audience and the {
boys behaved with great decOrum with the possible
exception that nearly OF them industrously {
hewed tobacco all through the service But little
hing like that should not be mentioned against them
The preacher pleased With the evident attention
)aid n his sermon, and did his very best which
not at all bad. His theology OF an extremely lib
raj not 10 hazy character and the idea OF punish
nent and suffering Tor the worst sinner, al
most entirely absent from it. And IN preaching the
boys he esI eclilly emphatic in denying that
here such place hell for he had a pretty {
neOry that the preaching OF etness and light with
70 he'll attached would captIvate these rough who
doubt repealed by the grim dOgmas the =
hOdOx creed. So when OLD Plug" smbled ~ to him
fter the service. he quite prepared hear that
IL views were appreciated Mr. Minister" began 7,
Old Plug. - " the boys liked the way you knocked -
ut hell tust rate Things If kinder quiet Ill these
ggings j. st now, and ont there's ructOn +
hey take to your doctrines like bell. But of -
hese days boss thief will be worked off. a galOOt
MI be caught playiD skin game and then 'tseems
me the boys u kinder miss the real old fashioned
enowine hell tire. They an't got no use up thar in
eaven Ter boss thieves and card sharps and your
reacbin don't denOminate any other place fer them.
don Ike To say It, stranger, but the bows pint
Heir weepIns at you when they gil worked np the
ibjck icy don't like 10 have tenderteet come here
1d take away the consultations of their religion from
lem, and while they quiet like Just | advise
on to mosey along and open your goods in another -
,wn ] he minister tired 70 appeal from the advice
f" Old Plug but he found that the biggest
lscals in the settlement had lingering faith In a a
genOwlne hell" which sparkling rhetoric could
and 80 at last be concluded mosey n,
ong until he should strike "A town where the
sOple were educated up 10 a disbelief in hell G,
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