Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-21

tional Music Association of which G. 4.
Spottiswood is President, and f. Griffith,
F. c. o., of Chiselhurst, is Secretary. The
musical papers deride it as Society for
the Degradation of Church Music, but its
come to a clear understanding as to which
parts of the service are to be sung by the
choir and which by the congregation.
Surely, says the Christian World, il this
question can be settled, both STYLES of
music will benefit The choir will not be
hampered by the congregation, and will be
limited only by its own powers in the
choice of music while the congregation
will have music that is within its reach
and according 10 its taste. The ASsOcia-
tion aims TO bring into use a low reeitipg
note (E) for the Preces and Responses, TO
provide simple settings for the Cantieles, to
print the music over every word Of both
Canticles and Psalms when sung to chants,
to place music in the hands OF every
gorshiper, TO promote congregational
practice, and occasional meet ngs Of slv raj
congregations for united praise, to encour-
age lectures ON the subject, and so on"
Apropos of AUX Mundi," the Literary
ChUrehmdR comments thus upon recent
utteranee of the Bishop of Carlisle Or.
Harvey Goodwin; THE Bishop of Car
Isle deprecates the introduction into
literary controversy Of the authority of
our Lord Jesus Christ And then he re-
marks that if our Lord attributes a book
of the Old Testament or . part OF il to i
particular author, such reference ought not
to be regarded as deciding It's authorship.
OF course, then. our Lords words are not
infallble; and if not infallible on ques-
tion of authorship, how can we assert
against sceptic that they are infallible in
other matters The Bishop deals with the
subject as if there was no such science as
theology, and as ii theologiaus had not long
ago discussed the question, 'Utrum in Chris
to fuerit ignorantiaP Christ cannot be kept
out Of the controversy, because His words
in reference to the Old Testament have
been called in question. Some writers
appear to think that in the nineteenth
century we are going to reconstruct the
theology of the Incarnation, and TO put
out some new meaning for the 'self-empty
ing of Christ, which the Fathers knew
not Whether He whose great character
istic as prophet as a recent writer says,
was His consciousness of infallibility,' lie
who opened the understanding of His
disciples that they might understand the
Scriptures could himself be ignorant as ia
the date, authorship and historic value OF
the Old Testament, is the question at stake
in this controversy, and nothing short of
that. We agree, however, with the Bishop
of Carlisle, that there can be no fear as to
the result, and that the present criticism
will be but passing cloud which brings
out in the end only more vividly the om-
niscience of Christ and the truth of the
Scriptures"
Concerning the state of religion in the
country districts it is interesting to note
letter of the Rev Professor Samuel Hart,
in the Standard Of the Cross, on the subject
of The growth of Episcopal churches in
Litchfeld county, Connecticut; Professor
Hart says; "Now that the reports of the
supervisors of the census have been pub
lished for nearly all the towns in Con-
necticut, l have been making COMPARE
son of some Of the figures which represent
! the population with the numbers of the
commitments in the several towns as
taken from advance sheets Of the new
| Convention Journal Of our diocese. ! ven
ture to send you certain of the results, as
regards the typical hill country Of the
State: Litchfeld county contains twenty
six towns, in nineteen of which we have
twenty-five parishes. Two of these towns
have little over 5000 inhabitants each;
none of the others has quite 1000; eight
have less than 1000 each. The popula-
tion of the county in 1880 was 52044, in
1890 it is 52,9l7, showing net gain of 873,
or less than ? 90 per cent. Nearly all the
gain has been in the two manufacturing
towns of Torrington and Winchester.
Only FIVE other towns show any gain at
all, while nineteen have fewer inhabitants
than they had ten years ago. In reckon
ing the number of communicants | am
obliged to omit two small parishes-that
in Harwinton, which made no report in
either 1880 or 1890, and in East Plymouth,
in the town of Plymouth, making no re-.
port in 1880, but reporting twelve COM
municants in 1890. The other twenty.
three parishes in 1880 reported 2253
communicates and in 1890 they report
2,76S, showing an increase of sis or %
per cent. in ten years. Counting these by
percentages, the increase IN the number Of
communicates in Litch6eld county has
been more th thirteen times as great as
the increase in the population. Or, look
ing at the same facts in another way,
whereas in 1880 there was one communi-
cant of our church in Litchfeld county
for every twenty-three inhabitants, there
is now one communicate registered for
every nineteen inhabitants"