Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-10

Permanent Organization of the Worlds
Fair Commission held its first meeting,
and that the committee was unanimous in
the opinion that the exhibition should re-.
main open on Sunday. 1t could scarcely
make worse beginning"
The Cbngregatioaalist thinks that "the
church should study to find out what
makes the lodges so attractive to the
average man, and, then, in so far as lies
within its province, it should strive 70
give him that or its equivalent. And
here, we believe, the church has much to
learn. Does the lodge furnish watchers
for the man who is nigh unto death
Does 1t see that his bereaved family does
not suffer? The church, of course, cannot
be life insurance company, but il can
and 1t ought 10 make it sure that none Of
Its humblest members are ever destitute or
forsaken. To be sure we all profess to do
this, but is this service for the weak lambs
! of the flock always performed cheerfully
and tactfully and thoroughly? 1t is not
an unheard-of thing for a secular order to
boast that 1t cares more for its membership
than the church does for those in its fold.
Let us be able to assert a negative to that
taunt whenever it is uttered One of the
chief attractions of these resorts is the
spirit of fraternity which prevails there.
If our churches could be made the rallying
ground for men who have the social in
stinct, they would not be so easily turned
aside to secular resorts. Man is gregari-
Gus by nature. He likes to be with his
kind. The churches most alive to their
responsibilities to-day are recognizing
/ thar Ohltnaf1Nt, 10 Il.
life Of man."
In speaking of the MacQueary heresy
case, the Liping Church says "We think
that Mr.. MacQueary himself is, in some
respects, in a better position than his de-
Tenders. While his attitude seems to us
TO involve curious obliquity to certain
moral elements of the situation, his frank
ness is worthy of all praise. Hi friends
pretend that it is not proved that he de-
MED any part of the creed. He says he
does, and that it is within his right TO
do so. II he is to be defended, il must be
upon the ground which he himself has
selected, not that which his friends, like
shrewd lawyers, would desire him to
adopt. If it were question whether he
had made such denials, we, for our part,
should have pursued very different
course. But he has not compelled a
proof of the fact He avows it. The
question then is simply whether a cler-
gyman of this Church has right TO re-
pudiate the creed of the Church, or any
part of it. 1t is not, we repeat, ques-
tien whether certain priest has done
this, but whether he has right to do it.
In view of the unmistakable attitude
which Mr.. MacQueary has thus far main
tanned, we have no doubt that in the event
of the question coming to the test of a
legal trial, he will still maintain the same
frank position. The decision will then
turn upon a simple point which everybody
can understand, and about which there
can be but one opinion among the great
body of churchmen. However this may
be, Mr.. MacQueary certainly stands in
much more honorable position Just now
than those many clergymen' whom he
knows to agree with him, and who not
only enjoy ecclesiastical privileges and hon
ors, but occupy prominent and influential
Positions Though he has apparently
been encouraged and egged On by such
persons, they have not yet dared openly
to declare themselves as he has done.n