Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-08
In RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations, ON Many Subjects.

The Christian Leader Univ says at
is common fallacy to identity the opin-
ion of the world with the opinion of our
set. We are for ever saying, People nc
longer believe the old dogmas.' What
people? and what dogmas? The people
of our immediate circle may not. But
suppose We made an impartial canvass OF
the town or city, how should we fGd it ?
Is it not he fact that the majority, in al
most every community, subscribe to and
support the old dogmas? No sensible
person believesY All but there is such
an innumerable concourse of persons whom
you would not admit to be sensible"
The Evangelist Pres says: "The Pres
byteriaa Journal of Philadelphia, which
stands guard over the Confession of Faith
to the very last word, thus essays to cast
one of the advocates of revision to the
ground. Behold how it strikes Professor
Sehaff and lays him low: In the article
on revision by Professor Schaff in the
Presbyterian Rtpiep we read-and we rub
our eyes as we read and wonder whether
we are in a normal condition and see
clearly this sentence: "The Assembly OF
| Divines who framed the Westminster
Standards acted on this principle by the
expulsion of 1000 ministers from their
| livings for nonconformity." Dear Professor,
did you really write that? II so, were
you awake? What do you mean? Was
there TRANSPORTATION OF the members of
! the Assembly, which ceased to exist in
1858, into Charles II. and his Parliament,
who in 1862 passed the Act which ex-
PEELED the two thousand? And had they
l%come Episcopalian liturgists in their
transmigration A good deal is being
laid to the charge of the Westminster As
sembly Just now, but this is the most ex-
traordinary of all. When our friend OF
the Presbyterian journal wrote the above,
he was right to question within himself
! whether he was in normal condition.
He must have rubbed his eyes so hard as
not to be able to see clearly, or to have
lost the power of recollection for we can
hardly suppose that the learned editor
does not know, when he is in his normal
condition. the simplest facts of English
history. The Episcopal clergy were ex-
PEELED from their charges for refusing to
conform to the Acts of Parliament which
abolished Episcopacy and established Pres
byterianism. When the Episcopal clergy
came back with Charles H., they turned
the tables on the Presbyterians and ex-
PEELED them for nonformity. There were
two expulsions for nonconformity. Walkers
'SufieringS Of the Clergy tells as sad a
tale as Calamy's Nonconformist Memo
rial Can it be that the Journal Is getting
a little dazed by the hard blows from DIR.
Schafi, DIR. Van Dyke and other revision
lists We see no other way to account for
such wild statements"
The Philadelphia Sentinel (colored organ
says: In bold and conspicuous contrast
to the conferences that have been held by
the Methodist, Presbyterian and Episco-
pal Churches, the Catholic Congress comes
valiantly to the front proclaiming the
principles of Christianity and giving them
practical effect by acknowledging the
brotherhood of man. There were no ifs
and butts and why's and 'wherefores' in
that Congress, but right on the platform
asked there by Governor Carroll of Mary
land, sat the colored priest Father Tolton
of Chicago, while directly behind the car
dinal and Papal legates, sat two full
blooded Indian Chiefs, in all the glory OF
war paint, blankets and beads and their
most imposing headdresses of feathers
On the first floor were colored delegates
from the different cities, who were re-
ceived and accepted and treated as breth-
rem of the human family. What q differ
ence between the Congress that met in
the once slave city of Baltimore and the
Convention that met in New York, which
lodged the status of its colored members
and ingloriously postponed its considera-
! ton TO a more convenient season 1t will
not grow less by postponement, and in the
meantime the Catholic Congress has de-
clared That the amelioration and promo
| ton of the physical and moral culture of
the negro race is a subject of the utmost
concern, and we pledge ourselves to sup
port our clergy in all ways tending to an
Improvement in their condition. The
work among the masses OF the colored
people Of the country for the amelioration
of their condition, morally and phvsi-
cally, will have to be done and that speed
| lily, but where is the efficacy for such per
| Torrance in a church organization that
takes the negro up by pair of longs end
examines him at arms length TO see if be
is clearly and if he is able to read the
Prayer-book? This may be religion. a
sort of Brahminism, but it is not Chris
tianity. The Catholic Samaritan comes
along and by the wayside sees bruised
creature rejected by his fellows. He
| plucks him as brand from the bur ling
and sits him beside the highest in the
temple to be respected by the followers of
his Lord and Master. What is the logic
of the contrast? A few years will give a
story for the Samaritan and the Pharisee."
The Unitarian Reriep takes up the plan
of the proposed English "Order of St.
James, which has been sketched in ac-
cordance with the affirmative action of
| the Lower House of Convocation on Arch.
deacon's Farrar's motion that "the time
had come when the Church could with
advantage avail itself of the voluntary
selfdevotion of brotherhoods. both clerical
and lay, the members of which would be
willing to labor in the service of the
Church without appealing for funds to any
form of public support" The Reneir says
ave seem 10 see very clearly the need Of
some such self-sacrifcing work, proceed
ing from purely religious mot simply re-
| for natory) motive, on much larger scale
than our Protestant churches have COM
monty attempted, if religion is to be re-
vived among Us as a social force We
fully believe that there are many thou
sands among us who would stand ready to
enlist in it if they saw any way to make it
practical. The one difficulty that appears
is fonnd in the possibilities of organising
it. The wisdom, tact, patience, expert
ence, skill, required in the leaders of such
work, can, from the nature Of the case, be
looked for only in a few-the great body
Of those who should enlist in it would
necessarily have TO work by their direc-
ton, under orders But the work cannot
be even attempted on the needed scale till
some appeal is made for willing and gem
erous recruits to the army of the Lord, who
AS we hear of high-born Catholic ladies
in the modest circles of France-will con-
secrate definite portion of their lives to
carrying out, under proper direction, the
task which their conscience accepts. The
term of service might be year or less: it
might be two, five, or ten years; with a
very few Of the right genius and spirit it
might become life service of as pure con-
secration as we have been used to seeing
in the noblest examples of Christian mis-
sionaries. The thing essential to hear in
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