Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-13
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations. on Many Subjects.

SUNDAY, MIR. Spurgeon remarked on the
fifth verse, BY faith, Enoch.' etc: a won
derful thing suppose it took vast
amount of faith to pass into the invisible,
to be taken right away by God. 1t needed
long cultivation TO take that long step.
But Enoch ioulked so long nth God that he
,cdlked array Nth him
A recent parish newspaper contained the
following passage of doubtful interpreta-
ton: THE Rev. Mr.. s. receives our
thanks for kindly officiating at the funeral
of Mr.. s., during our absence in June.
We are glad to have been able to return
the compliment during his present vaca-
ton by administering the Holy Commun-
ion in private to Mrs. k and taking the
services at her funeral, besides taking the
services at the funeral of Mr.. j.
The Observer would seem to be getting
tired of Chautauqua. 1t says: "The
origin of the name Chautauqua is said to
be the exclamation of an Indian chief who,
driven to desperation by the energetic
tongue of his squaw, plunged headlong in
to the lake, exclaiming as he went: She
talk away, she talk away There is ter
rible suspicion that the ghost of the old
squaw still haunts the shades of Chautau-
qua, and bewitches the tongues of not
overwise speakers"
The Observer pres says: "The i'm
portance of a snort is determined by the
character of the nose from which the snort
issues. The character of the nose is deter
mined by the mind and spirit behind it.
Those who snort at the so-called Higher
Criticism are men who are fully equal to
Judge of its canons, methods, and conclu-
sions. Their reluctance to accept these is
no evidence whatever that they are SO con-
temptible in intellectual character that
their disapproval should be described as
snorting. There is neither wit nor wisdom
in the expression"
The Catholic Unirerse of Cleveland O..
says: "The saloon at night is the panderer
of ninety-nine- hundredths of the crime and
vice of a large city. Close the saloon at
night Let the City of Mexico plan be
followed in our large cities-6 A. NJ. to
P. M.-and give the father and husband an
opportunity to make the acquaintance of
his family. The saloonist ought to him
self work for that opportunity, and make
his calling more respectable and less odious.
Draft bill closing saloons from P NJ. to
8 A. NJ, with imprisonment and penalty
that will dismay offenders closing saloons
on Sunday; making the license no less
than 81, 900; furnishing with Imprisonment
and fine the adulteration of liquor or sale
of adulterated liquor. Then organize
your committees; go to Columbus and push
this legislation. Let bishops, priests and
ministers throw their open influence into
the scale of this moral movement"
The Independent says: " Professor Briggs
gave, last Thursday, the opening address
before the students of the Union Theolog-
ical Seminary in this city. He is quoted
by the Tribune as characterizing as dog
matistic' and sticklers for tradition
those believers in the entire Mosaic au-
thorship of the Pentateuch who 60 about
'snorting against Higher Criticism If
they snort it is bad business, but is their
discourtesy any more than that which
filings this opprobrious word at them Pro-
fessor Green does not snort , he is care
full and courteous scholar; SO is Professor
Howard Osgood, and they are most compe-
tent scholars, equal to the best in Amer
lea, and they believe in the critical cor
rectness of the New Testament when it
speaks of Moses as the author of the Pen
tateuch, and when it recognizes as true
history the account of the Creation, the
fall of Adam, and the Flood, and not as
merely the 'chaste, artless, pure, simple,
exquisite, touching powers which the
Hebrew Professor of Union Seminary calls
them"
The Freem1n's Journal Or. C.) saws
"The Catholic Church has never made
any demand upon the State for money to
support schools or anything else. We are
pretty free with counciliar enactments in
this country, but in no decree of any of
the ten National Councils we have had
have We ever seen a hint in this respect.
And they are the only authoritative organs
of expression for the Catholic Church in
this republic But, and secondly, a con-
siderable body of American citizens, in
Guiding Catholics, and many others desire
to see the public system amended so that
the State will recognize private or volun-
tary schools on footing of equality with
those in the system as now constituted,
and pay to them their pro rata of taxes
The State, IN return, would have the
right to make those schools conform to the
standards of secular education that it sets,
and should therefore pay on the basis of
merit as well as by the head If such
schools satisfy the Safe in secular require
ments, then it would be no business of the
State to examine into the religion therein
taught, and it would be asked to pay moth
ing for such teaching Is it not Just and
fair proposition ?"
The Ctueh Messenger Up. e. says: "The
subject of 'Proportionate Representation
is beyond all others the one that will
prove the burning question at the next
meeting of the General Convention, in
October. The advocates of prayer-book
revision have lost their first enthusiasm,
because of the scanty results of their labors
and in view of the difficulties which con-
front them in procuring further fexibility.
The desire for an authorized hymnal is not
so strong as 1t was before the present book
came Into use. 1t is pretty generally con-
coded that any common agreement upon
liked number of hymns will have to be
based upon the elimination of those that
are best adapted for purpose of divine wor-
ship, and the mind of the church Is turn
ing to Hymns Ancient and Modern as a
collection which will be on the whole most
satisfactory, and the use of which, without
ICING auhhOliLSb, DS u.
The Change of Name as it has been
called, will scarcely be entertained until
the question of proportionate representa-.
ton has been settled, for it is obvious that
if our present system of representation is
not equitable, it would be quite unjust to
decide so grave question one way or the
other"
The Christian Intelhgencer (Reformed)
says: Cardinal Gibbons has issued a
circular backing up the allocution of the
Pope condemning the Italians for erect
ing statue of Giordano Bruno in Rome.
He has probably made mistake. Bruno
was not what he says he was He was not
an atheist or a wild theorizer,' or a
shameless writer He was a Neo-Pla-
tonist, and in degree disciple of Ra-
mond Lully. He believed the Supreme
Being to be the soul of the world, and
tended towards pantheism He was
man of learning, and lived a better life
than a great many of the priests of his
day. He was burned at the stake by Pope
Clement Will, because he would not re-
tract his philosophical opinions, among
them being that the stars are suns with
systems revolving around them. He was
martyr to the right of private Judgment,
and for this reason Italians honor HIM.
t. 70 L.. al.