Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-17
In RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various DenOm-
nations, on Many Subjects.

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understand why DR.. Warfeld could not
longer cooperate with him, and any one
who will observe closely the tendencies in
the Presbyterian Church will see how it
would be impossible to sustain review OF
the editors which maintain the most antag-
onistic position on questions funda-
mental"
The Examiner (Bapt.) says: 'It is signi-
ficant of the general dissatisfaction with
the present state of law and custom re-
garding marriage and divorce and with
the abuses which diversity of laws has led
to that such body as the Episcopal Con-
vention attempts to regulate it by legisla-
tion Of its own. Whether the addition of
new legislation to that already existing is
the best way for great church to help
the solution Of the problem does not seem
quite clear but the discussion and consid-
Grafton Of the subject by this church dur
ing the next three years may well be of
great value"
"Farmton" says in The Adeaace: Towards
so-called perfect people l have feelings
mingled with madness and fun. Those
who boast themselves of their perfection |
am inclined to think hypocrites; ! desire
to hold no relations with them. II | had a
house to let, l would not let it to one of
those perfect people unless he paid the rent
in advance. | heard lately of an Andover
professor who was talking with one of these
folks, a woman. She declared to him,
Why, Professor, have not sinned for six
months 4 am glad to hear so good an
account of yourself replied the Professor
1 suppose you are proud of it, Yes, am,
she said. | am sure that each of these perfect
people is about as much subject to ordinary
sins as this woman was to the sin of pride;
but most of us have not the wit to set a
trap and to catch the innocent bird as had
the Andover teacher"
The ObserUer Pres says: sit is difficult
to believe that such periodical as the
late Presbyterian RegieC. under the con-
troll of so important an association of theo-
logical seminaries, and with the whole
Presbyterian Church as its field, would
suspend publication solely on account of
personal differences of opinion among its
editors. If it was largely supported by
the church, its continuance would be a
certainty, though its editorial control
were frequently changed, and if It's editors
were handsomely paid they would hardly
indulge in polemics which would need
lessly destroy their fortunes SIC The
RccleW conservatiyely managed might
have in due time not only paid its ex-
penses, but would have added yearly to its
circulation, become a source of profit to its
managers and of advantage to the Presby-
terian Church. But if it were to be man
aged in the interest of Higher Critieism,'
and used as an instrument of warfare
against other divines and professors in the
church, it could not hope for success, and
might properly suspend"
The Independent SAYS: "Of course as
Protestants we think IL all nonsense to saw
that the public school is goddess or I'M
moral. The great bulk of our teachers
are Christian people, and they cannot help
teaching Christian morals and even the
Christian religion. The character of a
school depends upon the character of its
teachers, and the teachers of our public
schools being Christians the school them
selves are Christian 10 matter whether the
Bible is read in them or not Further. as
believers in the divine authority of the
Christian Church, we would Indignantly
rePudiate any proposition TO have the
State do the work of the church. The
church cannot trust the State to do its re-
ligious teaching. The church must as
sumo that work through its local churches,
In its Sunday-schools and in its Christian
households. The whole Catholic conten-
tion for religious schools supported by the
State is based on a low view Of the dignity
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with that of the State, and is supported by
an inadquate view of the moral and reli-
gious character of the influence exerted bv
Christian parents and by a religion which
pervades the community, families and
teachers alike"
The Christian Iatelligencer (Retormed)
says: "Dr Schaf, in the October Prcsbv-
terian RerieU, has the following note (p.
$3.50: 1t is highly significant and almost
incredible that the clearest and strongest
modern reproduction of Westminster CAL
vinism ends not with heaven, but with
hell, and devotes only three pages to
heaven and eighty-seven to hell SRedd's
Dogmatie Theology is intended. We
say that it is highly significant and a most
incredible that DR.. Schaf should not
know that for centuries in English theol-
ogy the Four Last Things have been
enumerated as Resurrection, Judgment,
Heaven and Hell, whence it appears that
DIR. Shedd in his order followed an estab-
lished usage, and also that he should. not
have remembers! that heaven, not being a
matter Of dispute, required but little dis
cussion, while the opposite state is more
violently and generally discussed at the
present time than any other Biblical
topic, and therefore required an elaborate
treatment. We repeat then, that it is
really incredible that a scholar so learned
and so amiable as DR.. Schaf should have
fallen into so gross blunder as the words
we have quoted"
The Rev. DR.. William Barry says in the
Catholic World: ain every sect there are
men of gooi will, desirous to follow the
light. To such, be they called Agnostic
or Pantheist, we who profess the creed of
the Gospels have mission; we are bound
to think of them and for them, if we
would enlarge the skirts of Chrstendom
or provide against future in which Pro-
testantism, as we have known il, will be
no more 1t is idle to seek the living
among the dead. Books of controversy
written for the sixteenth or the eight
eenth century are ont of date. Methods
of arguing in which the inspiration Of
Scripture, the authority of Fathers and
Councils, were taken for granted, are
simply futile in the eyes of a generation
that has broken with church traditions
of every kind, Catholic or not. We
must make a new beginning, though we
preach the ancient faith. And the first step
toward an undertaking which every day
renders more imperative is to enter into
the thoughts of those who differ from us,
to interpret rightly the principles on
which they reason, to sympathize with the
good and the beautiful in which they be-
lieye, and, in short, whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things are honest, what
soever things are just, whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report, if
there be any virtue, and if there be any
praise in the ten thousand phenomena
that make up modern life and literature,
to deal with them as our fathers did with
the elements of truth in Greek and Roman
civilization, that so they may be brought to
baptism, and in the name of Him from
whom every good and perfect gift comes