Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-03
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 DcHol-
nations, on Many Subjects.
The Christian Inquirer Baptist says:
In Methodist Conference last week one
of the speakers said: Salvation without
education is triumph of grace and not of
ignorance 1t might be wished that this
truth were more generally realized. Per-
haps men deficient in education would not
be SO readily ordained"
The CongregationdliSt says: "The Rev.
Mr.. Shelton, just returned from tour of
inspection to the Indian agencies, makes
good point for the Indians. He says he
was surprised at seeing wagon load of In
dams starting off one Sunday as if for
pleasure ride. In CONSERVATION he made
inquiries, and learned that, as the white
people were settling in and around the
agency, the Indians were afraid to have
them continue without Gospel privileges,
and the wagon load were representatives
of the Indian Christian Endeavor Society,
going out to organize and superintend
Sunday schools among the white people"
The Independent says: CDR. Henry J.
Van Dyke has been misrepresented, and
this is the way his statement of his views,
which he means to make very plain, is
printed: L thoroughly believe in the
special love of God for sane men-that is,
for the elect; and freely admit that the
Westminster Confession contains the best
exposition of the doctrine of election ever
formulated by uninspired men. But l be-
lieve also in the infinite love of God for
men-that is, for all men, elect or non
elect and that this love is expressed in
the sufiiciency, the suitableness and the free
offer of the Gospel salvation to all sinners.
| cannot find in the Confession any explicit
statement from which it can be legiti-
mateiy inferred. This is a sad defect
which ought to be amended In the Sec
ond line read some for sane and we get
Dr. Van Dykes sense. Or is there not
larger truth in the doctrine that rebellion
against God is insanity
The Examiner Baptist quotes Mr.
Moody's saying against the seminaries that
they educate the young men away from
the people and says: "The truth seems to
be rather that such talk as that of Mr.
Moody is doing much to educate the peo-
pie away from the ministry and the
churches. People outside of the churches
are only too ready to listen to any one
who tells them that they are not to blame
for standing where they do so much as the
churches. This sort of talk accords we'll
with their feelings. 1t is exactly what
they wish to be true, and they very easily
believe it is true. 1t is well known, how
ever, by all careful observers that noted
evangelists do not succeed better than Or
binary pastors in reaching these same
Masses There is such a thing as edu-
eating the manhood out of man, and
making of him mere book-wolm. There
is also such a thing as conceited incompe
tence rushing in where angels fear to tread
The latter is the more immediate and Sc
rious danger that confronts the American
churches to-day"
The Chuchmon says: "The subject of
dress in the ordinary worship of the church
is matter of good taste, and nothing
more. That poor girl, whose only APP
pearance in public place is when she en-
tiers church on Sunday, should be over
dressed, is not very wonderful but when
wealthy persons are overdressed in church
they unwittingly confess that they do not
know the customs of the best society.
Good ton requires the plainest dress to be
worn at church. The house of God is not
the place for personal display and good
taste, in thus conforming to the dictates of
piety, forbids display in the house of God
Charity agrees with good taste and piety
in forbdding expensive dress in church.
The house of God is His house of prayer
for all people; there the rich and the poor
are meant to meet together as the children
of one Heavenly Father. The Church
makes no distinction between rich and
poor and they ought to make no outward
distinction between themselves. A richly
dressed congregation as effectually ex-
cludes the poor from participation in its
worship as if it wrote over its doors that
there is no admission for them We are
much of the opinion that it is the external
evidence of wealth, more than anything
else, that keeps the poor out of the
churches"
The Watchman Baptist says: "The
annual meeting the present week of the
American Board in New York city prom
ises, as is usual, to be an occasion of COM
handing interest. The comment of vari
GUS journals, religious and secular, mean
time is expressive. The Independent speaks
hopefully-more so, strange to say, than
does our neighbor, the COnpegationdlist,
which, editorially and otherwise, seems to
raise signal note more or less ominous,
for what cause or reason is not obvious.
That Sunday secular sheets should there
upon join in a refrain of pessimism is but
natural. They ever stand ready to do that.
More than this, one of these papers-the
Springfield Repu6lican-is emboldened to
make an onset of attack upon the admin
istration of the Board, which is as severe
as it is essentially misleading. The head
and front of the offending of the Pruden-
tial Committee appear to be this: They
are honestly and intelligently intent, in
most catholic and Christian spirit upon
the maintenance of the Scriptural princi-
pies in missionary teaching and in evan
gelical propagandism which have marked
the history of the American Board for up
wards of three-q quarters of century gone
by. The anniversaries, notably at Des
Moines in 1856, and at Springfield in 1887,
and also in 1888 at Cleveland, upheld and
sustained the Board in this its only true
and normal attitude. We doubt not the
anniversary of 1889, so far as need be, will
reafirm the position and status Of the
three preceding ones"
The Christian Union says: at is re-
ported by the CongregutiOndlist, in very
cautious terms, that there is not entire
harmony in the Prudential Committee
itself and our readers do not need to be
told that there is good reason to believe
that this want of harmony extends beyond
the Prudential Committee and that there
is wide divergence of opinion between
the President Of the Society and the
Home Secretary, as those opinions are
embodied respectively in the letter Of &C
ceptance of the former and the unchanged
policy pursued by the latter. The Congre-
gationaiist wisely maintained that the re-
establishment: of harmony cannot be Sc
cured, as was proposed by some partisan
spirits at Springfield, by the exclusion
from the Prudential Committee of all but
the representatives of one of the two par
ties in the Board, and urges that all
causes of the present disturbance, which
are so seriously imperillIng the work of
the Board, should be fully ascertained and
removed. The C5ngregationdtist adds:
How this is to be done it is not for US to
suggest Certainly it is not for the Chris
tan Union to suggest. But it quite evil
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