Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-25
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations, ON Many Subjects.

The Pope has disapproyed of the sus
pension of Rev. DR.. Quigley of Toledo. b,
Bishop Gilmour, and DIR. Quigley will a
once return to his charge.
A Bishop once said: "My child, tel
| me where God is and | will give Won n,
orange" The child replied oMy lord
tell me where He is not, and l will Civ,
you two"
Rev. W. Mcdonald, President of tn,
National Camp-meetiug Association, an
nounces that there will be held at BenlaI
Park, near Oakland, meeting beginnin,
September Goth.
The Recording Secretary of the Meth
odist Missionary Society generally man
ages to say what he has to say SO tina,
his language will not be misunderstood
but when at meeting of the Woman,
Foreign Missionary Society at East Or
ange, n. j., last week, he said that "thou
sands of gallons of rum go to Africa fol
every missionary who is sent there" one O
the sisters of the society whispered tc
another: "Rather a large allowance Of
liquor for those missionaries"
The Nashville Adcocate has observed
with satisfaction that, with the introduc.
tion of the new hymn book of the NJ. E.
Church South, is a tendency towards re.
sumiug the old Methodist practice OF sing.
ing while the congregation is gathering
1t says there is no reason why the custom
should not be restored, except, perhaps, in
some of the city churches, where they nc
longer have even the congregational with,
out an organ accompaniment. 1t gave
grand preparation for the regular service
in the old days, and the Sunday-schools
are reyiving the practice to good purpose
The Methodist clergymen of the coun,
try are complaining of the small compen.
sation they receive, and, apparently, with
good reason, if, as is said in some cases
they reach scarcely over 500 a year
These are in the instances of elderly men,
bat that makes the hardship still worse
There is no class Of men so poorly paid as
are the country clergymen ofthe Protestant
denominations OF America, and no men are
so little at liberty to better themselves by
personal efforts outside their profession. Ii
IS reproach TO that active Christianity
which has assumed to sustain our churches
The Rev. DIR. HoratiuS Bonar, minister
Of the Grange Free Church, Edinburgh,
died recently in that city at the age OF
eighty-one. He studied under the ceIe-
hrated DR.. Chalmers in the University OF
Edinburgh. In 1858 he received the de-
gree of Doctor of Divinity from the Uni
versity of Aberdeen, and in 1866 he was
called TO the Grange Church in Edin-
burgh. DR.. Bonar took high rank as a
hymn writer, and the collections 'Ilyra
Consultations" and "Hymns of Faith and
Hops" are very popular. Many strangers
visiting Edinburgh, and especially Ameri-
cans, made point of attending the serv-
ices at the Grange in order to see and lis
ten to the well-known hymn-writer.
Austen Pember, in an article in the Ma
ti0aaL Reuier, holds substantially that it is
monstrous to .8ct down a child of eight
years of age, dull, uneducated, uninterested
and unknowing to the same mental and
spiritual repast as full grown man who
occupies comfortable seat and can under
stand every word spoken through the serv-
ice. The London ClristidR World on the
same subject says: Everybody thinks he
can talk to children; only one in thou
sand can. But one of the first aims of the
NilI i'G W SSGh Olik GIidG one Ill Il
thousand, and so save the children. The
present system simply makes them hate
church going, and they abandon it as soon
as they are their own masters"
If there is one place where one needs to
keep all his wits about him it is in the
Mission Sunday School. On one occasion
a young rapscallion in North End school
remarked in a sanctimonious tone, INV
father drinks" The unwary teacher, fall.
ing into the trap, began to talk to the class
on the evils of intemperance. She waxed
eloquent, and spoke at considerable length
When all the class were supposed to be in
an eminently edited condition of mind
little Johnnie finished his sentence with
an air so innocent as to deceive, if it were
possible, even the very elect. "AIy father
he said, drinks water" And he smiled
confdingly into the face of his teacher,
as if he were sure of herapproval, and as il
he enjoyed the approval of clear con
science, as, indeed, very likely he did
Boston Courier.
''We do not believe" says the JelpisI
Messenger, THAT any good end is attained
by publishing in a family weekly, for gen.
eral circulation, a rabbits opinion about
Jesus. 1t may be stroke of enterp. Use on
the part of the publisher, so as to sell his
wares, but it is poor judgment on the rab,
bis part to lend himself for that purpose
Let Mr.. Huxley, If he will, write against
the historic character of Christianity and
its founder A rabbi had better attend tc
his own business, and not indirectly arouse
prejudice against his co-religion1sts by pub
fishing views which are his own, but fol
which they are held responsible. The Jew
and the Christian have much in common
and the thousand virtues in practice that
bind men together are vastly more impor.
tant than the few differences in opinion
that keep them apart-for time"
The Churchnlan says: deacon Perowne
of Peterborough, Eng, has come forward
in the columns of the press with pro
posal which, when we consider its source
in the mind of pronounced member Of
the Evangelical wing of controversy, it i:
not without distinct significance. 4 wish,
he says, to see Conyocation declare plainly
that the Ornaments Rubic should be taken
in its natural and obvious sense, without
the insertion of a negative, as defining the
maximum of allowable ritual. But then
the rubric so taken must be permissive, not
compulsory, and as regards vestments, let
it be clearly understood sthat while those
in use in the second year of Edward VI
are legalized, it shall be sufficient if at all
times of his ministration clergyman
wear suplice, hood and stole or scarf
This remarkable utterance is plain sign
that England is sick of litigation on points
of ritual and sighs for a truce"
Herbert Welch of the Indian Rights
Association has sent out a circular sue-
gesting that ministers should preach on
Thanksgiving Day upon the subject of
civil-service reform, which is commended
to their attention as a subject important
to the moral welfare of the nation. In
this view of the reform" the Watchman
says, I've heartily concur. The request
is seconded by a large number of ministers
of different denominations, leading men in
their respective communities, and will
commend itself to many of those to whom
it is addressed. Thanksgiving Day has
always been regarded as a season In which
the higher interests of society and of the
State are legitimate topics Of pulpit dis
eussion, and there can be no question that
the subject of civil-serviee reform is of
serious import to the purity and eff
cheney of oui Government"
'We defend the Puritans," observes the
Ctristian Inquirer, mot because they had
no faults hnt becai1se fbev v-era so o,.o4