Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-18
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 Adrdace says: "The Rev. NJ. j.
Savage, an extremely advanced Unitarian
minister Of Boston, ought to know. Re-
ferring, in the Christida REGISTER, to DR..
Lyman Abbott's article in the April Forum
on No Theology and New Theology he
says; If this is not Unitarianism, then
we do not know what Unitarianism is. 1t
IS much more outspoken in its clear and
plain humanitarianism than was the older
type of Unitarian belief We quite agree
with Mr. Savage when he says, One can
not but wish that all those who are plainly
not orthodox would say So
The Record, the parish paper of the Mis-
sion Church of st. John Evangelist. Bos-
ton, explains that the reply to the Boston
Herdtds inquiry concerning the object and
benefits of Lent, signed by the clergy of
the Church OF Advent, reprinted from the
Herald In the SUNDAY UNION of May 4th.
was 'Piekwickian response of course
intended as a joke (which it is hard for
some people to reeognize), and was sent to
the clerical member of the Herald staff af-
ter MIR. Halls personal note (which was
quoted in the Herald, though without the
name of the writer), declining to contrib
ute to the Symposium on the ground that
the Sunday Herald seemed to him an in
appropriate place for serious Discussion
OF the benefits of a season of penitence and
fasting"
In a readable article in the Homiletic
RerieW for May, DIR. Arthur T. Pierson
discloses some of the secrets of the pulpit
power. Among these he names good pro-
nunciation, enunciation, appropriate gest-
nres, avoidance of mannerism, and imita-
ton. Concerning the last, he says "Some
member Of presbytery, a country brother.
complained that the city clergymen dressed
too well, and thus made any undue dis
tinction between themselves and their
rural brethren. DIR. Breckenridge, always
ready for debate, straightened up his tall,
1.-the form and indignantly denied the
charge. In burst of eloquent anger he
declare that he was ready to change
clothes with any brother on the floor. In
an instant short, fat man-as broad as
long-waddled into the aisle, and called
out wheezily, Mr.. Moderator, Pm his
man. The moral is that every man
should wear his own clothes rhetorically
as well as otherwise"
The Je,cih Ildinqs of Rochester. n. Y.
which is publishing series of opinions on
the question of supplementary services on
Sunday for Jews, says: "The views of the
IIdingS on this question are well known.
This paper does not wish to see thrust
aside the convictions of those who think
that Saturday as day of worship is one
Of the bulwarks of Judaism. But in order
to reach the thousands of Jews who have
neither the time nor the inclination to at
tend Saturday services, the TSdings pro-
proses that supplemental services be held
on Sunday. The Jewish ministers should
certainly go this far in trying to keep
within the pale of Judaism the Young
men and young women who are growing
up without religious instruction. The
time has passed when we can afford to
sneer at the efforts of conversionists to
brings Jews within the Christian fold.
We must act. No Jew can long remain
an adherent Of the Jewish religion who is
denied the opportunity of attending di-
vine worship. Let us have supplementary
Sunday services"
The Congregationalist says: at is un-
fortunate that these questions have been
| raised. The broad and simple basis was
sufficient, the recognition of each member
Of her own responsibility to the King,
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ But
we would remind these ladies that after
having adopted the doctrines concerning
the Atonement and the Trinity, and circu-
lated their statements of belief, and then
banished them from their Foundation
because part of the membership could not
accept them, the order is not in the same
position as before it admitted them. Those
who profess to follow Jesus Christ, who
are not at all active in religious life, and
who do not believe in His divinity and
atonement, are usually actively opposed to
these doctrines. Those who believe them
find them the heart of their Christian life,
and their belief is a constant irritant to
actively religious people who oppose it.
If any one would verify this statement,
let him examine any number of the lead
ing Unitarian newspaper, the Christian
Register, and note the proportion of its
space devoted to what it regards as errors
of orthodoxy, and the intellectual and
spiritual inferiority of orthodox Chris
tians"
The Cumberland Presbyterian says: "Why
should not preacher be as free to de-
nounce ballot-box stuffing, and other cleo
tion frauds as he is to cry out against Sab
bath dissertation, or theft, or drunkenness S,
or profanity? When preacher raises his
voice against popular amusements, and hits
theater-soers, card-players, and dancers
hard, he is thought to handle sin without
gloves, and to hew to the line, but when
he hurls anathemas against political cor
ruption that is sapping the very foundation
of society and breeding crimes enormous
and unblushing, then he is preaching
politics and his mouth must be stopped.
The most gigantic sins of this generation
have been committed in the name of party,
and yet ministers of the Gospel must be
still for fear they will be thought to med
die with what does not belong to them.
Bribery goes on unrebuked and unchecked.
while dancing and other social vanities
and sins are rallied at by preachers and
church officers. 1t is well enough to cry
aloud and spare not when the purity of the
church Is at stake, but why should not
ministers be alarmed when even church
members are guilty of the grossest frauds
in politics and work to carry part meas
ure and practice such corruption as would
make gambler blush?"
The Examiner (Bapt.) says: "The Order
[of the Kings Daughters has once more
illustrated the truth of the Scripture,
Can two walk together except they be
agreed?' The breadth of its terms of
membership admitted Unitarians to the
Order, it being left for each person to de-
| eide whether she held such relations to
Christ as would justify entrance to the
ranks. Opinions will differ as to the pro-
priety of making the terms of membership
so broad, but the thing was done at the
very outset, and, having been done, the
honorable course could be nothing less
than to abide by the terms, and treat with
| impartial justice both those who believe
and those who reject the Deity of Christ.
Just here came the trouble The Central
Council, which is practically self-perpetu-
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