Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-08
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 Christian Union prints some hith
erto unpublished letters by the late Henry
Ward Beecher. Among them is this:
Ny Dear. :. am of opinion that mer
may be virtuous without personal religion; thai
they may be religious without being Christian
| regard the peculiar notion of christianity &c
be union OF our souls with Christ and that 4
religion so resulting not only is above all other
religions, but is the only thing which can fl
not simply moral and fgurative, or like the
union OF Two congenial natures among men, bu,
that IT is positive intromission of the Divine
Spirit to the hman soul, and that only as abso.
lutely Divine can Christ be supposed to be
united with us. l am very truly yours
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The Christian Leader (Univ.) saws:
president Harrison has made departure
In the matter of the selection in so many
editors for Federal offices. The presump.
tion should be that he selected the editors
on account Of special fitness for the places
to which they have been appointed. But
an inspection of the men and the offices
does not establish that presumption They
are all of one party; they are all of the
class of party editors who act on the great
principle, our party right or wrong ;; they
were given the office as a reward for party
service. Now, if party service by an ed
itor were not the meanest service he rend-
ers-the service which is least truthful.
most unscrupulous, most demoralizing to
the public conscience good citizen
would be more grateful to the President
Tor marking it with royal approval"
The Eeangelist (Pres) says: "For
months past Mr.. Moody has been holding
meetings in New York, where the churches
were not large enough to contain the con-
gregations. Two and three times day
he has preached to immense audiences,
producing powerful impression and lead
ing hundreds to Christ. Will some one OF
those who have attended these meetings be
so good as to inform us if he has heard him
at any time preach sermon on election
or preordination, on preterition or repro
baton !? # not, ,phy aots If it be, indeed,
blessed truth that God hath for His own
glory foreordained some men to eternal
death, why do not those who believe it
preach it at any and at all times? Or do
they in their hearts (whatever they may
profess to believe, and perhaps do believe,
or at least think they believe) recognize the
fact that to preach such doctrine in the
midst of revival ,could XIII 1t stone-dead.
Why then keep in the Confession what is
only stumbling block to those who are
seeking to find the way of life?"
Under the heading "Abominable Senti-
ments," the Religious Herald (Cong.) says
Some one, speaking one day to the late
DIR. Bushnell, said Of another, He has no
more principle than the devilp MY
friend replied DR.. Bushnell, the devil
has principle, plenty of it, intelligent and
fixed principle, but it is principle for every
kind of evil, any so fear it may be with
Mr.. -, of whom you speak The re-
mark is recalled by some expressions taken
from an interview attributed to Senator
ingalls,, the substantial correctness of
which, it is said, he does not deny, and in
which it is to be feared not few poll
ticians agree with him. The expressions
are: The decalogue and the golden rule
have no place in political campaign.
Their object is success. This modern cant
about corruption Of politics is fatiguing in
the extreme. 1t proceeds from the tea
custard and the syllabub dilettanteism, the
frivolous and desultory sentimentalism
of epicenes. Patronage will allure the
ambitious, force will coerce the timid
demagogism will gull the credulous, fraud
will rob the weak, money will pay the
mercenary'"
The Observer (Pres.) says: "The real con-
hict in regard to revision has not yet begun.
When it becomes, months or years hence,
the duty of the church to decide positively
that it will eliminate from its confession
certain statements and add others, there
will be revelation of interest and con-
viction in regard to certain aspects OF
divine truth of which there is now but
little evidence, because as yet there is no
special reason for their manifestation.
Though the question of revision has not
come directly before this great Assembly,
it is there in frequent illusions and rela-
tions that are significant. Notwithstand-
ing that large majority of its members
are in favor of revision in some degree and
form, it is evident that the ability and
number of those present who believe and
love the standards as they are form a con-
servative power that makes itself felt in
every movement. When the actual work
of remodeling the ancient fabric begins,
this power will be realized Reyisionists
now include numbers of men who will not
be reckoned in that category when the i'm
petus of this movement brings the church
to the consideration of those changes that
appear to be SO simple when they are only
i'm the air."
Zion's Herald wesleyan, Boston, says
"The Rev. DIR. Talmage of Brooklyn,
whose advertising and money-raising ex-
ploits have brought him no little noto-
riety, has outdone himself by his effort of
last Sunday. In thirty-nine attitudes
pleading, warning, urging, etc.-he al
lowed himself to be photographed for the
Sunday World, and between illustrations
and interviews occupied four full pages of
that immense newspaper. We can well
understand why the money is coming in
so slowly for the proposed new Tabernacle,
and after such an exhibition as this we are
firmly persuaded that it will come in
still more slowly. Just what particular
use the Brooklyn Tabernacle ever has
been is question that is now being gen.
orally asked. After a ministry of so many
years, and with such immense congrega-
tions, for church not to be able to re-
build itself without resorting to methods
that would disgrace a circus suggests, to
put it very mildly, that not much perma-
nent good has been accomplished. Tai
mage in thirty attitudes was doubt.
less big advertisement for a Sunday
newspaper, but the effect of all this upon
the Church of Christ is really deplorable"
The Christian Register Unit. says: "The
Adrance asks some serious questions about
the new theology. 1t finds in the recent
article of DIR. Abbott in the Forum the
substantial confession that Christ was a
human being filed with the divine spirit.
This it rightly declares, lis Unitarian
Ism. The literature of Unitarianism
abounds in such expressions and state
ments. Even Renan has said as much,
and it is doubtful if Claiming ever said
less. To make Christ an unapproachable
man is common to almost every form of
the denial of his divinity And SO the
Adudnce is led to ask the question: will
the New Theology movement end in Uni
tarianism? Will there be an attempt on
the part of leaders like DIR. Abbott to
Unitarianize some of the churches, with a
formal withdrawal to that body, or will
the work of disintegration be conducted
from Congregational pulpits, or will the
great body of churches and ministers re-
pudiate these tendencies and reject these
teachers? We do not look for such an
organic division ourselves. Seventy wears
ago it was unavoidable Int TO-DAY ortbo