Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-30
In RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations, on Many Subjects.

appears in the Oxford Diocesan Gazette, un-
der the Cathedral notices for Holy Week
In that week Evensong will be said at
Pm. (instead of 81 and sermon preached
from Monday till Friday inclusive"
The CRrtstian Register (Uut.) says: at
| is relief to know that foreign religious
journals do not hold the American clergy
responsible for Mr.. Talmage and his vaga-
ries abroad. the London Christian World
describes him as "a clerical monstrosity,
and not normal type of the American min
ister.'"
The Southern Ct,rchmaa (P. e. saws:
"The public school system, where educa-
| tion is secularized, tends to deaden the re-
ligious sensibilities of children. While
education is TO be eminently desired. it
should be such as not only sharpens the
intellect, but quickens the affections and
makes strong the will; to be taught 10 un-
derstand God and have the affections
quickened towards Him, and the will en-
ergized for good. Unless these be part
of an early education, education fails and
religious sensibilities are deadened"
The Christian Register says: "Joseph
Cook preached an old sermon to his Bos.
ton audience last week. 1t was one of his
ancient attacks upon Unitariauism Mr..
Cook signalized his sensational course in
Boston several years ago by such an at
tack. In similar way, but with much
more bitterness he attacked progressive
orthodoxy. When he first appeared on
the field, it seemed worth while to answer
him; but his influence for several wears
hoe haot, ctaaIily- Il .. Y
not be strange if his last onslaught failed
to evoke any reply. He has probably dis
armed criticism. The best answer to anv-
thing Mr.. Cook says is the knowledge that
it was Joseph Cook who said it."
The Rev. DIR. John Henry Hopkins SAYS,
in the CRuchmaa "The Rev. DR.. Pei
ham Williams has published 'by request
very bold and strong sermon on Catechis-
ing instead of Sunday-school' He is un-
questionably right in his fundamental
proposition that the parish priest is re-
sponsible for feeding the lambs as well as
the sheep of his flock. And to devote
himself wholly to the grown-up sheep,
while turning over the lambs to a number
of young men and women who have had
no special training for the work, and who
have never received any special commits
sion as teachers in the Church, is bv no
means a compliance with the triple in
junction of our Lord TO St. Peter Where
the parish is of moderate size, the old way
of catechising by the priest himself is far
superior, but it requires special and care
full preparation and with the immense
Sunday-schools in some of our larger pa
rishes, and the endless variety of other
work expected of our parish priests, it is
no wonder that the Sunday-schooi system
prevails, and will continue to prevail for
long while. But in it, as general rule,
the proper work of the Church for her
children is not half done"
The Cturchman says: Naturally enough
Bishop Wigger's tiasco in attempting to
constrain the Roman Catholics of his do
cese to withdraw their children from the
public schools has caused considerable dis
cussion. Mgr. Doane of the Newark
Cathedral complains that it has produced
"a recrudescence of the Know Nothing
spirit If Mgr. Doane will reconsider the
subject, he will find reason to reassure
himself. The old KnowNothing' excite
ment had its root in hatred and dread of
the Roman Catholic Church and relig-
ion; its purpose was to ostracize and polit-
ically suppress Roman Catholics as such
its effect, like that of all religious persecu-
tion, was to make Roman Catholics more
loyal and more blindly submissive than
ever to their ecclesiastical superiors. In
the present matter the assault: is made by
Roman Catholic Bishop; he is resisted,
not by outsiders, but by Roman Catholics:
and the effect of Bishop Wigger's attempt
is that his ecclesiastical authority is
treated with disdain. These two move
ments are strangely unlike. The old
know-Nothing movement was an un-
American attack upon certain religion :;
Bishop Wiggers know-nothingism is an
attack made in the name of religion upon
an American institution. The old Know
Nothingism strengthened the religion it
was meant to weaken; Bishop Wigger's
know -nothingism has considerably weak
ened the religion it was meant tostrength-
en-. And yet, if one considers it. there is
wonderful resemblance both in purpose
and effect between the old Know-Noth-
ingism and the new. If it were worth
while, 1t would be easy to point out the
many features of the likeness; but it is
hardly worth while
The movement towards liturgy for the
Unitarian Church appears to be strong.
The Unitarian RerieW says: 1T is we'll
known that committee carefully selected
and strong in numbers has, by appoint
ment of the American Unitarian ASsoeia-
ton, long had it in charge to prepare an
Order of Public Worship, which may do
something to relieve the baroness often
complained of in our congregational forms,
and, it is hoped, serve as a bond of closer
sympathy and attachment among those
united in our common fellowship. Many
symptoms have shown, of late, most un-
expected degree of readiness to welcome
such an experiment and of satisfaction
with the partial experiments made in the
same direction in the last twenty years or
more-to say nothing of the practical con-
venlence of generally accepted manual
in the conduct of lay services, in particu-
lar for our extending missionary work.
The testimony which we have very lately
heard as to all these points seems to show
that the time is favorable tor serious at
tempt to attain more nearly the ideal that
has been gradually forming as to this mat
ter in the general mind Nothing is so
desirable just now, in this region, as that
the remarkable consensus we have noted of
late years should shape itself towards some
definite conception of what it is we really
want. If we succeed IN finding it, or even
make fair approach towards it, the great
est service will be rendered to that move
ment in which we are embarked For
surely the religious life as we have con-
ceived it, however emancipated in our
modern ways of thinking, cannot without
harm and loss separate itself from either
of those types of the devotional spirit
the grave and ancient, or the modern and
more buoyant-which we desire to see
combined in the accomplished result we
are looking forward to-"
On the same subject the CONGREGATIONAL
ist says: " 1T is becoming more and more
very practical question with Congregation
alists whether it be wise, or unwise, for
them to introduce this liturgical element
to a larger place than has been common
among them in their worship. On the one
hand it is urged that mostly the people
like it; that, especially as now trained
under the influence of the Sunday-school
and the Society of Christian Endeavor, the
young people desire it; that one strong
attraction of some other denominations is
found in connection with it; and that, in
itself, it has fitness-when properly man