Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-21
IN RELIGIONS REALM

men of All Denominations.
Thomas Z. Sherman, son of General
Sherman, has been ordained to the priest
hood.
Rev. J. :. Cleveland, superannuated
member of the California Conference, and
his wife, have gone East on a visit to
friends and relatives
Rev. w. A. Spence D. D., preached last
Sunday morning at First Church, Oak
land, and at night at Grace Church. San
Francisco. He left Monday for Los An
geles.
Rev. A. J. Hanson, business manager of
the Pacific ChriStiaa idroeate Portland,
Oregon, with his wife, are visiting friends
and relatives in California, They were
out at Santa Clara last week.
Bishop Vincent does an amount of work
that seems to us to be almost beyond en-
durance. We regretted his inability TO
visit the southern part of the State, and
we know it was a disappointment to our
brethren there. But the work there was
not in the original plan, and was, in fact,
almost a physical imposSibility. He is do
ing all he can for the church, and we re-
ioice in his ability to speak so often and
with such effect, but there is no economy
in working such men to death-ChristiGn
4drocate.
James Murray, of Hankow, Central
China, writes to the ChriStjan London
that the treaty with England for admis-
sion of opium to China is binding only up
to January Is, 1890. 1t can then be ter
minated by either party at twelve months
notice; therefore, it can be made to expire
on January Is, 1891. As to the desira-
bility DISCRIMINATING this traffic, there can be
but one answer. So we should say Eng
land has received revenue of over $780,
100000 from this cruel traffic Will she
be willing TO give up so lucrative bust
ness, but a business so destructive to body
and soul ?'
The Cumberland Presbyterian SAYS
',THhere is nothing more certain than that
| there were differences of opinion in the
early church. Vet these differences did
not result in divisions and separate organ
izations. The churches held counsels and
settled vexed questions without producing
schisms. If the church had always held
to the spirit of liberation, there need not
have been so many factions in the Chris
tian world. Presbyterians have departed
from the great central principle followed
by the Apostles and their immediate sue
cesSors. They have stickled for forms in
stead of principles, and the result has been
disaster after disaster"
DR.. John Hall of New York, in a speech
made at the grand reception given by the
Presbyterian Union of New York City, to
the General Assembly, in referring TO the
| general characteristics of the Presbyteri-
ans, said: "Our people are not found at
Albany lobbying around the Legislature
to secure help for our UNCONVENTIONAL
charities" and he declared the members
of the Presbyterian Church were known
in this city as among the most liberal and
transformations givers for every good work.
ave do not often" he said, get in the
newspapers, because we are a quiet people,
who do not furnish much of what passes
for news. We are not sensational nor
spectacular-we avoid all that, and on
spiritual grounds"
The ChluchmGn says: In the discussion
in regard to the color line in the church
1t has been urged that in this country, at
least, Rome has never admitted a colored
man to her ministry. Whether that is a
merit or a reproach, it is no longer true.
| Last week in Baltimore Cardinal Glib
bons ordained colored priest, and it
indicates what the future policy of that
church is to be. Rome is wise in her
generation. While we wrangle about a
colored man more or less in our conven-
tons, she appropriates the millions of a
Miss Drexel to the work of religion
. l.NI H. a..
of her journals states that our unfortunate
discussion of the color line has carried to
Rome thousands of the negroes. That
may or may not be true, but it indicates
what might be supposed to be natural
sequence. There is no one who holds that
incompetency should legIslate in church
or State, but there are many who do not
think the proper test of competency is the
solar spectrum. Gross ignorance should
be excluded from all places of trust and
responsibility, but equally so, whether
white or black"
The Portland Me- Press says: "The
assertion made at the meeting of the Amer
lean Missionary Association of DR.. Kin
caid that parts of New England were spir-
ltually barren as a rock, and that Names
LIllcoIOhdlN lSliS were Calling LOUDLY IOT
workers, has already been commented upon
as statement that need not be taken with
great allowance The Rev. A. G. Fitz, of
South Paris, writes to the Oxford Democrat
this week an interesting letter upon the
condition of the missionary field in Ok
ford county. Mr.. Fitz writes this letter to
show, as he says, that mission work is
needed right here at our own DOORS Ten
years ago it was found that there were
people in Oxford county who had never
been to any kind of religious meeting
some who did not know what Sunday
school was, and many who had never heard
church-bell ring. The Congregational
churches of the country put missionary
into the field with commendable prompt
ness, and work has been carried on for ten
years in that county. But the field is too
large for one missionary, and to-day there
are found, Mr.. Fitz writes, people who
never heard a sermon preached, or heard
the voice of PRAYER children who have
never been to Sunday-schooP and sick
people who have not seen the face of
minister for MANY wears