Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-08

I II cannot be said that this movement i
| premature, or without adequate and mani.
fest cause. The Catholic World mistakenly
ascrlbes il TO the Committee of One HIM.
i dred in this city, and under this erroneous
impression utters itself in the followins
specimen of yituperative rhetoric; This
| amendment will not tell
against us. 1t will tell against the miser.
able Committee of One Hundred, reptiles
which flourish in every cline and under
all conditions, simply because where man
Is the native dirt in which such committees
sprout must also be- We are twelve mill
Ions IN America at this very moment. We
are going to get our rights in good time, or
other people shall go without theirs.
While the One Hundred are firing at their
own puppets we are building our schools.
which some day the State will support
'Forewarned, forearmed.' There, in the
ayowed purpose of gaining State srpport
| for Roman Catholic schools, is the insti6-
cation of the proposed amendment TO the
| Constitution of the United States. Onr
State Constitution has an article GUARDING
this point Other States have less fore
thought. Let the National Constitution er-
| tend the prohibition impartially over the
Union, and barrier, against ecclesiastical
and saeerdotal aggression will have been
erected that future generations will thank
US for. The matter will not brook DELAY.
We trust that in the next session of Con-
gress We shall see the introduction and sue
cesstul passage of the amendment to be
submitted for ratification to the States"
A correspondent of the Church Year Up.
| E. says of mending the Presbyterian Con
fession: ITO some minds there is in the
| Confession too much of the class of teach
| ing which has been stigmatized by the
weaker brethren of our own fold and some
| opponents without, as 'ritualism' and sRo-
manlZlng germs As, for instance, on page
| l44, we lind, Baptism is sacrament of
| the New Testament, ordained by Jesus
Christ, not only for the solemn minIstra-
tlon of the party baptized into the visible
church, but also to be unto him a sign and
seal of the Covenant of Grace, of his in
grating into Christ, of regeneration and
of remission of sins The church doctrine
| of baptismal regeneration is hereby plainly
taught Again, on page 153, we find the
church doctrine of the real presence in the
Holy Eucharist squarely set forth as the
teaching OF the Presbyterian authorities.
Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of
the visible elements in this sacrament, do
then, also, inwardly by faith really and
indeed, yet not corporally, but spiritually,
receive and feed upon Christ crucifed ;
the body and blood of Christ being then
not corporally or carnally, in with or under
the bread and wine, yet as really, but
spiritually present to the faith of believers
IN that ordinance as the elements them
| selves are to their outward senses 1t is
said that the progress of modern thought
requires that those statements of faith be
revised. Years ago, when we were a
freshly gathered young deacon, and very
much isolated from clerical companion
ship, we were greatly troubled as to how
to answer when we were called Pusey-
lte,' and having not yet waded through
Tract 80. Among those who tormented
us was Presbyterian Doctor of Divinity,
who was also dear personal friend. So
we consulted the Bishop. He told the
deacon what to do and he did it, and
spiked that gun. We wrote out in full,
from the Westminster Confession, the arti-
cles on baptism and eucharist Then we
| handed the paper to our friend, as stating
our doctrinal position, asking what he
thought of it. He responded, That is
rank Puseyism.' We believed him then
and believe him now"
The Congregational Reuiew tLondon).
urging "all seats free and unappropriated''
| in all the churches of the Congregational
order, says: "The Tourists Church Guide,
| 1889, issued under the authority of the
English Church Union, informs me that in
no less than l, ,744 churches all the seats in
the body of the church are free and unap-
propriated. And any visitor may satisfy
| himself that these free churches are as a
rule, the most fiourishing and the best
| filled places of worship in their respective
| neighborhoods. They are often churches
| with small endowments and large offerto-
ries. Generally they belong to the High
| Church party, but that is no reason why
Nonconformists should be blind to the les
son that they teach. Fas est doceri, | will
| not say db hOSte, because all Christians are
| friends in face of materialism, their COM
mon foe. But it is sheer folly for us to
| ignore one secret of the immense success of
| what is becoming every day more plainly
| the dominant school in the Established
Church. Besides all the varied attrac-
! tlons, spiritual and sensuous, of their serv-
| ices, they are dong one thing which we
Noncontormists are afraid or unwilling to
do-they are making the rich and the
poor, the merchant and the artisan, the
earnest communicate and the casual
stranger, equally welcome at their gates.
And they are visibly moving forward, while
we-well, we hope we are not moving
back. The plan does work. Question
| any friend who belongs to a free and open
| church, and he will tell you he can always
get the seat he prefers by going in decent
time, and that if by chance his pet place is
preoccupiod, he has exactly the same right
to the seat next before or the seat next
behind. In an appropriated church the
man who hires pew No. 45 feels awkward
| enough when he comes in and finds it full
of strangers, because he knows that he and
his children must go trespassing into No.
A or No. As. But in free church he
feels that every pew is equally his own
| and so he is at home in this seat or in that,
without regard to its exact number. Ask
any Quaker acquaintance whether family
ties are broken, and parents and children
ruthlesslY set asunder in Friends meet
| lng-house; yet in every meeting house all
seats are free and unapprI priated. Ask
both men whether the average worshiper
at a church or at meeting where such
Liberty prevails be so alarmingly inferior
In social status to the average deacon's wife
who shudders at the thought of having to
sit next to anybody and everybody Even
if anybody and everybody should take
heart to enter our church door when we
throw it wide open, and should presume to
occupy one of these newly-freed seats be-
twixt the wind and our nobility, ought
that unpleasantness to seem quite intoler-
able to Christian? The ground plan of
Gothic minister was always the cross ::
and every Christian church and every
Christian life must still be built upon the
sacrifice of self"
Bucking Against Luck.
Mr.. nluck-"Say, Mariah, now that your
uncle has left you little money, you Just
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