The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-25
Editorial Briefs.
BY REV. I. N. ATWOOD, D. D,
Canton, N. Y.

In HIS ARTICLE on Hebrews ix, 27-28. in
the July Quarterly, Dr. Manley finds in
the first verse of the next chapter, proof
that settles the question" The words
(which they offer year by year." show,
DR.. Manley thinks, that "the men" in
verse 27 of the previous chapter are the
high-priests. He says, "the pronoun
+! they,in the clause, they offered, stands
for the high-priests, and has for anteced-
ent, the men once appointed to die" II
this were so, it would settle the ques-
ton, surely. But it DIR. Manley will look
| closely he will see that the pronoun
"they" refers to "worshippers' in the fol-
lowing verse, "the comers," in the same
verse. Besides: the high-priest is re-
ferred to in chapter viii and tx in the
| singular only; and in verse 25, immedi-
ately preceding "the men once appoint
ed to die we have "the high priest en-
tereth into the holy place." not the high
| priests.
The AdUance attacks Andover with
| premeditated malice. There is an air of
standing up very straight and strong for
an imperiled cause; but the ching is lu-
dicrously overdone. To liken the scarce
ly worn edition of New England Ortho-
doxy, issued by Prof. Park, to the ma
tional union, and the partial revision OF
it undertaken by the Andover Revieac, to
the late rebellion, is a tremendous fight
of fancy. The Christian Union comes
in for an undivided share of our Chicago
contemporaries wrath. There is, we fear,
as much bad blood as zeal for pure and
undefled religion in this controversy.
The COmgregdtionalistg girds on it's armor
each week and fixes its glittering eye on
some devoted Andover head; the Inde-
pendent has taken in sail and keeps closer
the orthodox shore than formerly; and il
short the Congregational heavens are
sort o'angry.
That the Catholic church is not alone
in the opinion that church and priest
have exclusive charge of the keys OF
heaven, Is shown by recent article ip
the Chsrchman, our Episcopal coDtem-
porary. 1t IS an admonition to the cler-
months old before seeing that they are
baptized. To do so, says the Churchmo7,
is to neglect and endanger the child
"Every babe generated into the human
family has right to be re- generated into
Il God . family" by baptism; for "the little
one may be called away, before it be
made member of Christ, the child of
God, and an inheritor of the kingdom Of
heaven" This seems eq 1ivalent to say
ing that unbaptized infants are lost The
writer appreciates the force of his reason
Ming and hastens to remark, that the "An-
glican church does not say such are lost"
1t only says that children "which are
baptized, dying before they commit actu-
al sins, are undoubtedly saved"
The Churchnadn continues it's com.
ment: "We cannot say such are saUed;
we cannot believe they are damned. We
can only hope that in the intermediate
stats,God will make up in some way for
the lack OF regeneration" So pious and
reasonable wish is not, we trust, to be
disappointed. Nevertheless, the Church
man would say to any parent who has
thoughtlessly allowed child to die unre-
generate and outside the covenant. PRAY
daily that God would forgive you and be
very merciful to the little un washed SOUL"
One wonders with what emotions man
like Phillips Brooks, or any man born
since Martin Luther, must read such
sacerdotal drivel. The zeal of some men
in magnifying the church and the priest
hood has its exceeding great reward in
making religion ridiculous.
The Dublin ReUiew, a Roman Cath
olic magazine, would probably resent
with indignation as a Protestant lie the
statement that the guides of the Roman
church prefer Ignorance to education for
the common people. But we find that
journal arguing that Ignorance is very
powerful preservative against intellectual
danger and what is meant by intellect
ual danger is frankly stated in the follow
ing sentence:
"a Catholic destitute of intellectual
tastes, whether in higher or lower rank,
may, probably enough, be tempted to
idleness, frivolity, gambling, sensuality,
but IN none but the very rarest cases
will he be tempted to that which (n the
Catholic view is an immeasurably great
er calamity than any or all of these put
together, viz, deliberate doubt on the
truth of his religion"
From the standpoint of the Roman
Catholic church this is sound logic. Err
rors of conduct do not imperil the eter-
nal welfare of the soul, so long as one
puts his trust in the one only and holy
Catholic church. But an error of faith.
or, as the ReUie,o puts it, deliberate
doubt ON the truth of his religion" is an
UNNECESSARILY greater calamity" be-
cause he who INDUCES it courts damna-
ton. The effect of education, and in par
ticular OF ''the higher education"--w which
the ReUieW was discussing is, uudoubt-
edly, to awaken doubt on the truth of
his religion" in the mind Of the Roman
Catholic youth Ii may not always do
this; but it is likely to. Ii is an "intellec-
tual danger" The only way to render
such education safe for Catholics Is IN