Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-06

of country. Our country n ay TOR awhll,
misunderstood and misjudge o. she ma,
treat US unfairly; she may tax N doubly
may suspect our motives, but, Ike tn
Grecian hero of old, we will look her loy
| ingly in the face and say: Strike. h.
hear men And We will perseTere until
the good sense and the noble heart of the
Al Rple give the victory at last
where ~ Atly due, and all ranks OF
our fellow-citrzens who believe in Christian
civilization will join with us in securing it
| by Christian education, will vie in guiding
| all the youth of the land in the gladstone
ways of Him who alone is or can be the
Light of the World"
The Christian Register (Unit.) says: "Our
esteemed contemporary the Presbyterian
Journal, to whose opinions we pay careful
heed, has its theological opinions adjusted
somewhat with reference to the points of
the compass. While Dr. Patterson, of
Philadelphia, is the editor-in-chief, the
Rev. DIR. j. Loughran Scott, of Boston, is
the editor of the New England depart
ment 1t also has an editor for the South
ern department. 1t is noticeable that,
! while DIR. Patterson on the first page of
that paper addresses his Pennsylvania
readers and takes ground against revision
Of the Westminster Conference, Dr. Scott
on the New England page takes Just the
opposite view The main contention seems
to be over elect infants DR.. Patterson
thinks the Confession expresses the Scrip
tural truth, all that God has revealed and
only what he has revealed on this point
DIR. Scott, on the other hand, SAYS, The
term ELECT infants" is in the Confession,
and ought to be OUT that lit gives an OPP
portunlty for misconstruction, and ought
to be changed We suspect that DR.. Scott
while in Boston visited Copp's Hill bury
| lng-groHnd, and saw the fence which sur
rounds the tomb where unbaptized infants
were buried. Presbyterians have long
since given up belief in the damnation of
infants; and we believe that if the Presby-
terrain denomination were to be marched
by this pathetic mound at Cobb's Hill.
every other man would like to pull down
some of the paling of that fence, especially
II on Presbyterians rested the stigma of
constructing 1t. 1t is the non-elect infants
who are fenced off from heaven in the
Westminster Confession. We do not Won
der that many Presbyterians want to take
down the paling"
The Observer (Pres.) says: "Clergymen
ought to have vacation seasons, especially
where the intellectual and personal de-
mand upon their powers is during most of
the year lnceSsant and exacting. But there
Is no reason why we should hear so much
complaint about the difficulty of finding a
clergyman at this season of the year, be-
cause all the clergy of neighborhood are
absent. We read that in several small
cities In this vicinity there has recently
been much embarrassment in obtaining any
clergyman during the week to perform
any special duty. The names of these
places are mentioned, but we do not repeat
them, as we are not personally acquainted
with the facts. We do know, however,
that in several of the small cities in the
neighborhood of the Hudson river, where
summer residents and visitors abound
nearly if not quite all the pastors of the
churches have had simultaneous vacations.
Where we are writing this the pastors of
Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Baptist and
Methodist churches have all been absent
at the same time for several weeks There
Is no necessity or good reason for this. 1t
ought not to require any formal arrange
ment to obviate the matter. Thoughtful
ministers should consider the interests of
the church and community by taking their
vacation at some other season than the
midsummer. There is no danger that all
of them will be able to do the same thing.
and those who are at home will have an
opportunity to attend to some valuable
work that is much neglected in buster
times. They need not lose their vacation,
for they can at any other season of the
year have shorter intervals of rest with
equal benefit"
OF the remark of Charles A. Allen in
the Unitarian Revie,C lately quoted in this
column of the SUNDAY UNION, to the eff
feet that Judaism must inevitably melt
away under the influence of our American
civilization" the Hebrew Standard replies:
I'VE are sorry to say that Mr.. Allen has
not the proper conception of Judaism and
of its true aspiration. Whatever Christi
anity contains of ethical truth, such as con-
stitutes the guiding principle of the mod
ern civilized man, is taken from the Jew
1sh religion and is fully embodied therein
The jew has no reason therefore to sur
render his religion for Christianity, as he
cannot gain thereby a single ethical
moment. On the contrary, it would be
suicidal for Jew to exchage his monothe-
istic, rational faith for the Trinitheism
of Christianity. Human brotherhood, the
fatherhood of God, are all vital principl
of Judaism, and why should a Jew step
into the barbarism of the pagan world and
accept such nice, inexplicable mysteries as
the logos, original sin, transubstantiation,
the Eucharist, and the other essentials of
Christianity? One needs to be born to
the Christian man or to saddle his reason
with all these dogmas-the jew remaining
true to his faith, not on account of race
tealty, but on account of the reluctance of
his reason to swallow the indigestible dog
matte pills which Christianity offers to its
confessors."
The Rev. DR.. Austin Phelps thus con-
cludes, in the C6ngregationaliSt an article
on ''The Biblical Emblems of Retribu-
ton" zone sequence of the decadence
in the preaching of the Gospel is corre-
spending decline in the depth and thor
oughness of conventions. In this respect
the history of our modern religious life is
ominous of evils untold An officer in
one of the churches of Connecticut has re-
ported to me recently the comment of his
pastor upon certain admissions to the
church in this wise: AT our last admin
istration of the Lords Supper we adj
mitted'-in default of more exact memory
twelve candidates on profession of their
faith; and there was not one sinner among
them all = He thus expressed his detec-
ton of the absence of those profound con.
victions of sin which characterized con-
versions in an earlier age. 1t is to be
feared that this incident is characteristic
of the times we live in. What more OPP
perfume corrective of this decline from the
faith and the religious life of our fathers
can be devised than a revival of their free,
courageous use of the Biblical emblems in
retributive discourse? These emblems
should be made to live again, as they have
always lived, in the great awakenings
which have signalized our history"
The Archbishop of Canterbury has as
tonished his realm by sudden movement
against the dress coat. He objects to it in
church. In order to keep it out of church {
he has directed that marriage licenses
shall not be issued for later hour than
o'clock, thus avoiding the requirement of
evening dress. His authority in this d.
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