Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-01

anu uOWs lew WOICS IN regard 10 the
efforts that are being made to belittle the
! power OF this Gospel that has taken woman
| from being the puppet and decorated tow
| of man and has placed her at his side his
aid and counselor Jesus proclaimed great
| principles which have never been adopted
| to any great extent except as causes gener-
ally regarded as almost outside the pale of
religious influence have conspired 10 en-
force their recognition. So it is said.
II that means anything, it simply means
that there was rich soil in which the seed
OF Christianity was sown. 1t has been bet
ter said in words that are clear and re-
soDant: But when the fuilness of the time
was come, God sent forth His Son, born of
a Woman, born under the law TO redeem
them that were under the law But it is
said there is deal of loose thinking"
about the power of Christianity. Let us
see what the really great writer's of liberal
Christianity have TO say upon the subject
Guizot, who has done some fairly good
thinking, says, after disposing Of the feudsl
system: THE influence of thechurch upon
modern civilization has been more power
fol, perhaps, than its most violent adyer-
saries or its most jealous defenders have
supposed
Dr.. Charming, than which Unitarianism
never possessed greater name, and whom
Frederick Robertson has called "a truly
great man, says; Christianity is the hope
of the world nothing but Christianity can
regenerate the earth. Christianity has
given new sacredr ess TO home, Few tender
ness to love, new force to tbs ties OF hus-
band and wife, parent aad child IL an
Gent and rude times the family bond was
comparatively no restraint. We should
all pause before We put in peril beings
" no hold IL
now and then to az infiiel. But there
is a sadder sight. II is that of thousands
who profess Christianity, hut have no faith
in its power 10 accomplish the work 10
which il was ordained" I take down
little book by James Martineau, one of the
very best liberal writer's of to-day. l find
this CREST man looking above anything the
natural reason can evolve. Are not both
the need and the existence of the objective,
sustaining power acknowledged by Mat
thew Arnold himself, when ne insists on
that strange entity, That, rot ourselves,
which makes for righteousness p By an
obstruction, however, such function can
not be discharged; nothing ever makes for
righteousness bat one who is righteous. To
support and raise the less there must be
greater"
l open a little }lums BY the lamented
loose thinking among those who have
the common habit" CT tracing all good in
our civilization back to JESUS Of Nazareth
"All that is pureSt and most refined in
our art and eloquence; all that is most
cheering and elevating in our literature;
all that is most stable and comforting in our
philosophy; all that is most praisew orthy
snd beneficial in our society-the church,
the missionary post, the abolition move
ment, the temperance pledge, the asylum,
the hospital, the charitable sewing circle, the
hundred handed methods Of modern bene
ficence-are blessings We have derived from
Christianity in exchange for evils thai once
existed in their stead. Humanity, once
blind and seorned. has slowly for centuries
been raising itself from the dust, quickened
by the words of Christ, and now, as light is
breaking upon its brain and new exist
ence begins to CLEAN before it, we hear it
uttering its sweet and earnest plea against
skeplioism: why, herein is marvellous
thing, tha. We know not whence this Jesus
is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Strike him out from bis few months min
istry in Palestine, and all these elements
and facts which vivify society and ennobe
our life disappear as the rays oflight would
vanish should the sun be quenched.n Lib
eral Christianity may call Starr King
'loose thinker" but she will not soon
look upon his like again.
And side BY side with man in these cen
turtles of progress, woman has walked, his
trusted peer, his faithful counselor, not
seldom his angel guide. And to-day,
wherever Christianity exists not, or wher-
ever it is more form than life, you will
find woman degraded almost TO the level of
a beast of burden, and wherever you find
Christianity a vital force you will find
woman exalted to the topmost pinnacle of
honor. The art that has best immortaliZed
her beauty is almost wholly Christian art !;
the literature that has best sounded her
praises is Christian literature; the homes
that are most worthy of the name are
homes where childhood bows at the
mothers knee and lisps the blessed name
of Jesus. God builds slowly because he
builds for eternity; and when, through
successive generations, woman shall have
fixed in childhood's heart, in all their full
ness, the principles of self-sacrifice which
made the life of Christ sublime, there shall
be no place of honor, Of emolument or OF
power, that man shall not accord to her
and she shall reign queen in every heart.
o, woman would you know your true
power? Yon shall fnditi this gospel where
YOU shall make it like the very iron in the
blood that courses through your veins !;
when you have so put to work the power
of motherhood and wifehood that the
Church of Christ shall WELD the influence
to which our Lord determined it; where,
in the language borrowed from Christ's
sacred estimate OF womanhood, she shall
rise in her might, put on her beautiful
garments and array herself for the day
when she shall become, in fact, as she now
is in promise, the elect, the bride of Christ,
the Lambs wife.
PLEASANT to the taste and readily taken
;c Simmons iver Perr1latnr