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

| CdiiS the rest 10 christ alone,
| As the Angels tenderly
| Bore him to the great white throne
| ''Wock o Bages, keft for me ~
| And he hid himself in Thee.
| Hans Goebel, in Toronto Globe
The Presbyterian Banner SAYS for n
church to attempt to alter its historical
standards, even in favor of expression. is
dangerous. The doctrines of the Pres
byterian Church have been fully explained
in the scriptural and historical sense. As
to their real meaning there can be no
doubt. Any attempt to set them aside or
prevent their meaning would be resisted
by the great mass of the ministers and peo-
pie of the Church. The Md Continent
says the movement is premature and peril
Gus, and there would have been satisfac-
ton had even as many as one-fourth of
the Presbyterians made request for the
opening of the subject. The United
Presbyterian says that tinkering at any,
| thing so sacred as a creed that has stood
the test Of years, and is still authori-
tatively admitted is an experiment that
| should be entered upon with great eau
ton. The men who formulated the creed
in the seventeenth century were fallible
Inv al ObLASA LICIlJ anu lIlSlI NOTh Is IlOI
| beyond improvement; but while digging
| about foundations may sometimes be nee
essary, yet none but the best workmen
should be engaged in it. The Presbyterian
says it is evident the Church is not at all
ready for the revision of the doctrinal
standards, and if there is any dissatisfac-
ton or restiveness in regard to it, it is
local and limited. When the Scotch and
English Presbyterian churches get through
with their work of revision the Church in
America may be ready to consider whether
anything of value has been secured by
their labors, but for the present there APP
pears to be no reason for the agitation of
the subject.
1t is already apparent that in naming
Rev. Wendelin Moellers as the successor of
Father Damien among the afflicted lepers
of Molokai, Bishop Hermann selected one
who is well suited to follow in the foot
steps of Catholic faith pursued even unto
! death by his predecessor. Father Noel
lers' mind has evidently beea already
made up to accept his mission with all the
sorrow, hardship and death that it entails
during his life, as he thus defines his posi-
ton in recent letter to a friend: eff |
become leper the good St. Peter, no
doubt, will let me pass all the easier when
my hour comes. Sometimes when / am
kneeling by the side of poor leper, from
whom exhales an odor that would put the
most courageous to flight, | often think l
am doing little of my purgatory. What
do you think? Regularly every week
small steamer makes its appearance here
and very early in the morning announces
by the loud blowing of its whistle that
lepers have been landed. Then those who
can hurry to the shore. Often we find our
new Corners soaking wet through. Now
indeed begin the cries and tears, for one
sees here the meeting again of husband
and wife, or a wife seeing her husband
among them; sometimes child seeing its
father or mother. They take the names
of the new arrivals, and every one sets out
to find lodging. Although | am not a
leper, l could not leave here to go to any
OF these islands without proper certificate
from the Board of Health. But have no
wish to go anywhere. My mission is here,
and here Pll remain"
In these days congregation listens to a
sermon in silence; but in the sixteenth
century 1t was quite otherwise. Latimer,
on his way to the Cross, in ST. PauPs
church-yard, which served him as a pulpit,
used to be greeted by cries from the open
ing crowd: Have at them, Master Lati-
mer have at themp They were as quick
to express disapproval as approval. Once,
while Bishop Bonner was preaching from
ST. PauPs Gross, a man in the crowd en-
phasized his objection to the preachers
sentiments by throwing a dagger at him.
Even as late as the seventeenth century,
English congregations had no idea of be-
ing only listeners. A writer in Temple
Bar says: at was allowed to them to APP
plaud or hiss the preacher, as the occasion
required, the applause taking the form of
loud hum of appreciation. Dr. johnson
relates, on the authority of his father, that
DR.. Burnet and DR.. Sprat once preached
on the same day before Parliament. When
Burnet preached part of the congregation
hummed so loudly and so long, that the
delighted preacher sat down to enjoy it.
rubbing his face with his handkerchief.
DR.. Sprat, during his sermon, was honored
with the like animating hum, but he
stretched forth his hand and exclaimed:
Peace, peace! pray you peacep When
the same DR.. Burnet was preaching on an
other occasion, before the House OF Com
mons, he turned his glass at the end of the
hour, as sign that he was going to con-
tinue his sermon, when his audience broke
out into loud hum of approbat1on-a
strong testimony either to his eloquence or
to their endurance"
The Independent says: "The demand for
the separation of Church and State is be-
coming very strong in Canada, and if the
Jesuits' bill finally succeeds, the move
ment in that direction will probably soon
become irresistible. If so, the Jesuits will
have brought it upon themselves. We do
not anticipate any serious trouble with the
Church in this country. We cannot think
that Catholics would be so foolish as to
provoke it, though some of the Catholic
papers seem almost to invite it. The
Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati, Arch
bishop Elders organ, We believe, has in
It's last issue an editorial on the school
question in Massachusetts,, in which it
says: we Catholics are power in the
land We hold the balance of po,rer in the
national elections, and, if united, could
control many State and municipal cleo
tions Also We have just one thing to
say to Catholics on this point: They that
take the sword shall perish with the
sword The most unwise thing the Cath
Ole Church could do in this country would
be to enter politics as a church. The
American people are disposed to give to
the Catholic Church all the rights that
the other churches enjoy, but nothing