Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-30
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREsT 10 MINIS
TIERS AND LATMEN.
Expressions of Opinion By Newspae. I
Representing the Various Deuorss
nations, on Many subjscts.

Gently, one feature of which was lottery
distribution. A morning paper published
list of the successful holders of tickets
This was violation of the lottery law
hence 'he paper was thrown out q the
mails. Ii this same lottery law shall dc
nothins else than occasionally retpke
churches that resort to this immoral
method OF raising money, il will bse
mighty blessing"
The FSsssiRg Soord tEIOreshan, Chicasol
prints the following invocation before ser.
mon "read before the Church Triumphant
Sunday evening, November 2d:'' "Su-
Premely Insttabie and Benignant Femi-
nsnity of human parentage, stoop TO us as
wsreach forth our aspirations in breath.
ings unutteraeiei Bend to US in RESPONSIVE {
berediction as We impiore, with the ex-
tended arms of our invocation, thy mater
nal blessing Have we poured forth our
soul yearnings for the tender womanhood
of God to hover with the seraphic wings
of her protective sphere, over an aspiring
race? Then may thy response. like the
gentle zephyr of the evening breeze, tan
our upturned BROW and in the renewal of
our reconstructed temple may we behold
again the fruitage Of the Tree of Life."-
The Rev. Willis Weaver, writing in the
Homdetic Bs,ie.p ''0n the Delivery of Ser
mons" says: "The supreme province of
elocution is to break down the barriers be-
tween soIl and soul, so that the orator and
his auditors may come into vital contact
and sympathy Is that an object worth
striving for on. the part of young minis
al fal-a hnJl Of al
tionary study as they love souls; and let
them, at whatever cost, break the bonds of
Ignorance and atrophy that bind the media
of expression through action. Every de-
feet of articulation, inhexibility of voice,
awkwardness of movement, rusticitv Of
manner, Responsiveness of body in ges-
ture; every page of manuscript or outline;
every square inch of pulpit structure, what
you will, that hinders free communication
between you and your people is a limita-
ton to be repented in dust and ashes. and
to be overcome by manly strife. 'Ye have
not resisted unto blood striving against
SIM Limitations that may be removed
are sim"
The Observer Pres says: The Christian
Inquirer has letter from a young man
Just commencing his ministry somewhere
in New York State The writer SAYS: so
you fix the date of your birth, so | fix
mine. The 18th day Of February, 1857,
had the unutterable honor of birth. With
this initial point of my existance | be-
came coeval with God. Henceforth | am
TO count the ages parallel with the Eternal
One. Nothing can annihilate me. Revo-
lutions may wreck our globe, and dissolu-
tion drive the stars in windrows on the
beach of immensely; all things NAV melt
with fer-ent heat; 'but | am born at any
rate ), yes, I'm born.' Rising
from the ground, refreshed with slumber.
shall see the day-star snatched from his
sphere. while don the sandals of immor-
tality, and walk over the cleaning sands
of burnt-out suns and calcined systems to
my inherited throne We would almost
venture to predict that if the young mans
sermons are of the same rhetorical order,
the early and 'unutterable honor of put
ting on his immortal sandals will not be
begrudged him."
"Farmton" says in the AdraRce: 81 have
asked the publisher of the Adrance to in
sert the following as an advertisement, but
as he has refused, | am going to print it
here. 1t represents some of the wants of
our time and church:
'Wanted-A man to furnish a good
working definition of total depravity and
original sin.
"Wanted-A man TO give million dol
lars to take the place of the fast diminish
ing Otis legacy.
''Wanted-A man to stop the useless
and harmful multiplication of colleges.
"Wanted-A man to endow generously
one Congregational college in each COM
monwealth.
"Wanted-A Methodist to stop putting
in a Methodist Church where other
churches are doing all the Christian work
there is to be DONE
"Wanted-Some man to tell rich men to
give away their money, and, second, to tell
them to give it away wisely"
The Examiner Baptist says of the move
ment to admit women to the pulpit: ''The
spirit in which the agitation is conducted
is deplorable. 1t is not merely the de-
nunciatory and unlovely disposition mani
tested by many women, but the ridicule
and contempt with which they meet every
appeal to the Scriptures, that is serious.
Conscious that the Scriptures are against
their demand, they either ignore this con-
sideration or deny the authority of the
Scriptures. Sometimes the denial is ex-
plicit, more often it is implicit, but in
either case it is positive and unmistakable.
What the agitators in effect say is, If
Paul opposes our demand, so much the
worse for Paul, preiudiced Jew. since
whose time the world has moved Or, as
Mr.. Lowell puts it, They didn't know
everything down in Judee' The Eram-
iner does not cry wolf when there is no
wolf We do not believe that everything
is going to the dogs and that the founda-
tions are giving way. Nevertheless, it is
wise to look facts in the face, to recognize
the danger in this increasing urgency OF
women for ordination, and to resist firmly
the beginnings of evil. In single case,
and in one only, a Baptist council has laid
hands of ordination on woman. May il
be many years before Baptist journal has
a similar case to record. And let us hope
that the Cleveland Congress will be the
exception among Congregationalists that
proves the rule-the rule of standing fast
by the word of God and New Testament
precedent"
The London DAILY Neus. says: "In a
remarkable article in the November num-
Der of Btdckuood, the eminent Scottish
divine and essayist who is known to read
ers under the initials "A. X. H. b. de-
tends the new Liturgies of the Scottish
Kirk by citing examples, mainly within
his own knowledge, of the vagaries of ex-
tempore prayers in Scotland. As samples
of what used to be called "a striking
prayer he cites the passages: we know
there are blessings going tonight, and we
put in for our share 1T must be ac-
knowledged that hitherto Thy people have
been in sad minority; but we look on to
the day when they shall be in an over
whelming majority For, as Thou know
est, men do not gather grapes of thorns,
nor figs of the national emblem Aud
so forth. 1t was at wedding
service, wholly extemporized,' that
the words were heard, we thank
Thee that Thou hast given us wumman
to make us koamfortable' An instance is
mentioned of congregation who were
much surprised to hear the minister, in
praying for the royal family, add the quail
flying clause, all but Edward, Prince of
Wales Not having printed prayer be-
fore them, they were unable to check the
minister's utterances, and had nothing to
remind them that all but was merely his
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