Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-15
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Demon
nations, on Many Subjects.

| The Societies of the Catholic Young |
Mems National Union held their fifteenth |
annual Convention at Providence, r. l., |
on September Sd, 4th and 5th.
Sister Bonaventura de Clercq, who died |
recently in Client, Belgium, lived to be
hundred and one years old. She had been
Sister Of Charity for seventy-eight years.
The report that DIR. Otto Zardetti, V. |
G. of Dakota, had been appointed Bishop
of the Vicariate of Northern Minnesota, is |
declared false rumor by Archbishop Ire
land, of st. Paul
The Italian Government has sent to
Sister Mary Joseph Bocquin, of the Sisters
of Charity, silver medal, in recognition
of her historic services to the sick and dy-
ing during tie last outbreak of the cholera
at Naples.
The Passionists have four foundations of
the Order in South America. The first is
in the city of Buenos Ayres, and is ded-
icated to the Holy Gross; another in the
interior is dedicated to the founder of their
Order, st. Paul of the Cross The third is
dedicated to st. Patrick, and the fourth, to
st. Joseph, is in the city of Valparaiso.
The first two of these foundations do
not need any help. They are prospering.
Those dedicated to st. Patrick and st.
Joseph are struggling and are in need of
assistance.-Monitor.
The Pacific says: ave hardly like to
have it said, as was said in column of
our paper week before last, DO we not
see that the holy Sabbath is wholly de-
pendent en- the existence of the civil Sab
bath% No doubt the public sentiment,
and the probability of full participation
on the part of many in the sacred services
of the Lords Day, are much affected by
the legal existence of Sunday but we are
not obliged to suppose that the legal Sun
day came to be only after the Christians
of the Roman Empire had been long keep
ing the first day sacred, and all the time
| of two centuries and more been extending
the prevalence of that observance. We do
not exactly like to adopt the reasoning of
our Saturdarian friends, who are all the
while arguing that We owe the Sunday 3D.
servance to the Emperor Constantine. No;
while the civil Sunday is great boon,
thank God we do not owe our Christianity
to the law of the land. 1t should be our
love and practice of the Lords Day that
creates the civil provision in its behalf"
Bishop Coke, of Western New York,
thus counsels the clergy of his diocese
The New Testament tells us clearly to
hallow the Lords Day by the Lords Sup
per. This is our law and our rubric: and
to this reformation | call you all, in Gods
name. | consider our neglect of Scripture
and of the primitive example, in this re-
| spect, grave abuse, and sad impeach-
ment of our sincerity in claiming to follow
Scripture and the Primitive Church. The
Prayer Book itself is against US; we are
wrong in our practice, however orthodox
in theory; therefore heresies concerning
the Lords Supper are permitted, and they
are the lash of God upon our inconsistency.
| say, then, very solemnly and earnestly,
let the weekly Eucharist be restored, as
soon as possible, in all the churches and
chapels Of this diocese. 4 < 1t will
be a blessing to the pastor himself, and
blessing to those who may be disposed to
join him in this act of practical obedience.
With all my heart l exhort you to this
obedience; with all that can do or say as
a Bishop, will support my brethren in it."
Says the HomiJetic Rcrie,c: Hartford
Theological Seminary Congregational
comes, to the front with the announcement
of course for the theological training of
women. In their circular the faculty saw
that tEis action Is taken to meet the needs
| specially of women who are desirous of
| preparing themselves for Christian teach
ing for the missionary field, and for apy
religious work other than the pastorate.'
The course and regulat IONS are in line with
the present arrangements, and enrolment,
promotion, and degrees will be upon the
same basis as those of other students. We
congratulate Hartford Seminary most
heartily upon being the one to lead in what
seems certain to be a great advance in
Christian work. There will doubtless be
some who will look upon it as a dangerous
innovation, as stepping-stone to the pull
| pit and the official service of the sacra-
meuts. We do not think so; yet, should |
that come, why should we dread it? What |
the world needs is the preaching of Christ. |
If men cannot or will not do it, and women
can and will, then by all means welcome
them to the foremost place in Christian |
service. We do not believe that the pull |
| pit or the altar is the place where woman |
can do her best work, but at the bedside of |
| the sick and dying many woman's hand |
can give the bread and wiae many |
woman's lips pronounce the benediction |
with power of precious sympathy that |
few men could have"
Charles A. Allen saws, in the Unitarian |
Reciew.: There are two obvious reasons
| why judaism maintains itself as a separate |
and rival religion in Christian America !: |
| first, t misunderstands the true meaning of |
| Christianity, so that it is repealed by su-
| perficial and temporary peculiarities and !
misses the essential life of our religion
and, secondly, it is hurt by its own intense |
race pride. For the genius of Judaism is
| really race patriotism even to-day, as it |
was in ancient times, though without that
| kind of local patriotism now-that attach
ment to Jerusaltm-in which it on1e
found expression when Israel still dwelt
| in Palestine. 1t was originally like the
genius of many another ancient religion,
whose gods were tribal gods, protectors of
that one race and hostile to other races;
| while the genius of Christianity is human
itarian. Judaism still worships the God
of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob; Chris
tianity worships the impartial Father of
all souls. In Hebrew synagogues the race
feeling is constantly appealed to; in Chris
tian churches the feeling of human broth
erhood and of equality before God are in
every way fostered. Thus Judaism is
twenty centuries behind the times. 1t
must inevitably melt away under the in
fiuence of our American civilization, in
which all races of men are blending to-
gether; it must rapidly melt away, like an
iceberg that has drifted, while isolated and
self-contained in its own grand individu-
ality, from far, off Polar seas into broad
ocean where tropic gulf-streams and genial
skies force even the mountain of ice to dis
solve and disappear in the hospitable
waters whose currents flow round the
globe"
The Pacific says: at is sad to see and
hear the tone which is taken up by so
many people toward the Church. We
might expect it from the depraved classes
that find their capital in pulling down
what rebukes or checks their perversity.
But state of things is bad when it gets
to be cant and fashion to think of the
the Church as obstructive of the virtue and
welfare of men. Yet is not that the way
a great many people nowadays allow them
selves to speak, who, considering their in
telligence and character, might be regarded
as likely to give fairer, even an opposite
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