New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-09
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
THOUGHT AND TALK OF THE CHURCHES
HERE AND THERE.

| HERE AND THERE.
| The hard-headed business man of the present
day is proverbiay sceptIca in regard to missions e
is apt to consider money contributed wasted
| and to look upon tho and women who leave
Portable civilized life to preach the Gospel to
the heather crackbraned fanatics But there is
form Of missionary effort which In those days Of import
| cd anarchy and socialism should not only gain
| the abstract approval. of tho hardest headed
| business man, but also enlist his pecuniary assist
| ance The work referred to 10 that done
among ignorant foreigners in the larger cities.
1t needs superabundant wisdom to that this ig
norant foreign element 10 dangerous to American
institutions. In fact this element must be some way
assmilated by the body polite II 1t not 1t will naly
destroy civilization itself. Now the city missionary is
perhaps only available agency for this process OF
simation Through tho church aud Its educating inHu
he gradually brings the ignorant foreign
into sympathy with the life OF people, aud
makes Of him useful and law-abiding citizen.
Tho only way In which to overcome the
| anarchist Is to educate and Christianizo
him: or II that is not possible. his children at
least may be educated Altogether aside then. from the
religious aspect OF tho case missions ought to be
literally supported for they do valuable work for
society In wide and comprehensive sense their duty
Is to sec that tho Republic suffers harm from the
armies Of foreign barbarsm that constantly landing
on its shores.
1t is therefore pleasant to know that through the
splendid generosity of Miss Catharino L. Wolfe
the Protestant Episcopal missionary work among the
Italians In this city is to be placed on
footing OF assured She has bought for
the Of tho mission St. Philips Church in Mulberry.
st. which has been the parish church OF colored
gre9aton and which in location and size is snguary
we'll adapted for the work which 1t Is to do. Other
friends have come forward with money to furnish and
decorate the church, and the ed OF this month the
Rev. Sauder. the faithful Italian missionary expects to
take possession of the edce under tho name OF the
Church OF San Salvatore Mr. Stauter deserves this
cess which has como to crown work
OF thirteen years. An italian himself no is.
better than any Auglo-Saxon, able to understand
and supply the needs OF his poor countrynen who
to this country 1t has been his aim not proselyte
those already members Of Christian church. but to
lend helping hand to those who have drifted away
from all religious and moral traditions and who are
literally without hope and without God in the world In
ana cooperation OF the members of his church. but
that well-equppcd church has been placed at his dis
posal the ultimate success Of his phianthropic work
want to SOC Ignorant and therefore foreign
population OF this CITY made into good citizens will
ala him generously with money and sympathy.
As might DO expected. tho comments Of tho religious
press OH the recent labor agitation the disorders
that have in many Instances accom- panied It in
line with the best thought OF tho country the subject
In them oil there is shown the deepest sympathy with
the workngman in all laudabs efforts to obtain his
rights while they condemn III tho emphatic
the corporations aud individuals who have acted un
justly toward labor. But they equally vigorous In
their condemnation OF tho acts OF awsss violence which
have unfortunately marked labor agitation. "Tho
vioator OF the plain rights of man." The Christian
Union, "needs another kind OF persuasion
than Is afforded by newspaper leaders. The mob
is to be dispersed by the club the riHs II
necessary tho boycotter the penalty Of his
spracy by hue and imprisonment" But 1t adds
GOD forgive us for imagining for q moment that We
have fulfilled that law Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as myself when have SHOT down the mob in tho
cubbel silcnce
Christians in New York had done their duty faithfully
as the police did theirs the other day. there woad have
been no need for those pocemcn's clubs"
Zions Herald thinks that public opinion has been cul
paby enient toward lawbreakers "Wo have been
taught" 1t saws. that employer who happens be.
justly or unjustly unpopular. may DO handed over to
mob that man who honestly opposes violence may
dve MS business rnen Dy 9oygout tat secret socie-
poy that man, and TO butcher his interests II they
obsirnc business By force Is not voience-that moth.
ing is violence which stops short OF murder"
The Tadepcnden naturally enough wants to see tho
law executed and If this be done thinks tho question
OF the hour will be settled Ia the right way. The Chris
Han hdrocgtc dscrininatos between just and unjust
strikes, while The Interior says that tho demagogues
in Congress- where they do grcgatc and
State executive chairs show signs Of having heard tho
rumbling OF forces which will Oyerwhelm them. IL thcy
do not with their usual agility get ont Of the way" The
Northwestern Christian Adr,cae with unjuStil,blo heat
says that the organization that forciby Interrupts
ling gun" The Western Christion Adroeate This
right wealth is arrogant and grasp.ng and monopoes
are interruptions md as against the expressions which
,pads a,ir ona 80, " rna hirolr, on"t no, lao "n
pressed in his the faces of tho poor must not be
III these days OF strife nnd social unrest the Society OF
Friends doe. not roosyo that roeoruitlon which its
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virtues oeser'e p"e Is p'e"s" " A"o" 'nae IL - ID
a hourshing condition. According TO The Christian |
Urlcr ,bara has be,n renarkahlo orovth of mariana
OF the society during tbs last thirty years. But even
the Quakers are affected by modern life; for The |
Chyisian Worker asserts that "whereyer Friends have
cheerfuly and ntelligenty adopted the now methods
and have yielded to the power Of evangelical truth |