Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-07
lii RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TERS AND LAYMEN.

Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations, on Many Subj. cts.
The Erangelist Pres says: "our es-
teened contemporary, the Central Presby-
terian, of Richmond, inveighs against the
part taken by many of our ministers in the
city election, affirming that Even the
multitudes who applauded these preachers
Will lose confidence in them as religious
teachers Not so, dear Central; not so at
ali Some OF them may have uttered
words that were unadvisable, and for such
we offer no defense; but most of them
spoke the words of truth and soberness.
and they are able to stand by them, and
their people stand with them, by no means
regretting what was done, though done in
vain, TO stem our city's humiliation"
The Independent says: "a curious thing
about the quarrel now coming to an end in
| England, at least till it breaks out again.
over the wrongs which authors receive
from the hands of publishers is that it
arose over "A Life of Christ The dis
putants would have done better to have
taken the advice given to the Rev. New
man Hall when he proposed to publish a
very angry pamphlet against some one
who had injured him. He read it to
Thomas Binney, we believe it was, who
said it was admirable, and advised him to
publish it under the title of Go to He'll
by the author of Come to Jesus He saw
the point, and suppressed it."
The Christian Inquirer (Bapt.) says: "The
Interior, last week, seeks to make point
ON DR. Lyman Abbott. 1t says:
"'Doctors differ.
"'Cardinal Newman believed in God,
but he did not believe in his fellow-man;
and disbelief in man is quite as disastrous
form of unbelief as disbelief in God and
more common '"-Dr Lyman AbJoH of Nep
| York, in Christian Union.
"'The heart of man is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked '"-Pdm OF
Tarsus, in New Testament.
| "The last quotation may be opposite, but
our Bible has it in the Old Testament in
the book of jeremiah. 1t will be news to
many people that it should be credited to
Paul of Tarsus."
| Of the recent conference on the subject
of moral instruction in the public schools,
the Catholic Herald (R. c. says: "Among
other specific questions are: What does
expediency dictate as TO religious exer-
cises in public schools?' 'How far does ex-
pediency dictate that State-suppor.ed
schools should inculcate the principles and
morals of religion" and What should be
the ground and character of instruction in
morals in our public schools?' If our
Presbyterian brethren really wish to solve
these three questions in the manner most
conducive to religion and morality, they
will adopt the teaching of the Catholic
Church and condemn all goddess education
as the most dangerous invention of the
devil"
The Cumberland Presbyterian says: "Have
| you ever noticed that we are nowhere in
the Bible commanded to profess religion
or holiness? One of the loudest profes-
sions recorded in the New Testament is
that of the Pharisee who stood and prayed
with himself in the temple. We may tell
how great things God has done for US. as
the healed demoniac was commanded to
| do; we must confess our sins and confess
| Christ before men. But further than to
declare ourselves on the Lords side, and
TO honor him for his grace and blessings,
there is nothing commanded or needed.
If We are holy, faithful, consecrated, peo-
pie will see it in our lives. We do not
need to profess our superior sanctity."
The Central West (Pres) says: effective
prayers need not be very long. There is
only one long prayer recorded in the Bible,
| but there are many short ones. The thief
on the cross prayed less than ten seconds.
| You can repeat the Lords PRAYER rever-
| emily in fifteen seconds. When Peter was
sinking he cried out: Lord, save, or I
perish If he had had as long pre-
amble to his petition as some ministers
use on the Sabbath he would have been
forty feet under water before he came TO
the point. One of the short prayers which
have become historic was uttered bv Lord
Ashley before he charged at Edgehill. %
Lord prayed the leader of the Parlia-
mentarv forces, Thou knowest how busy |
am to be this day; if forget thee, do not
thou forget met The historian Hume.
who has preserved this most remarkable
petition, says; There were certainly mucn
longer prayers in the Parliamentary army,
but doubt if there was as good one.'"
With these extracts may be put a para
graph by "Bill Arp in the Louisville
Home and Farm "And this reminds me
of what | have just read in the Aadousr
Reuietg for November. 1t is the organ of
the New England orthodoxy [sic] 1t is
now lamenting the decay of religious in
terest among the farming population of
the North. DIR. Dunning says there are
ninety five towns in Maine where no re-
ligious services are held, and there are
more country villages in Illinois without
the Gospel than in any other State in the
Union. Just think of that The great
State of Illinois, that has two counties
that make more grain than all Georgia.
| This great State that stands fifth in the
scale of education, and fortieth in the
grade Of Christian religion. What do you
say to this, you advocates for education?
Education regardless of moral training"
The Christian Register Unit.) says: "An-
| other excellent article from the Baptist
standpoint on State Education and Chris
tian Education we find in the Standard,
by Rev. A. L. Wilkinson, DID. DIR. Will
kinson declares that the fact that he is
Christian does not enlarge or abridge his
| rights, duties, or immunities as a citizen
Ours, he maintains, is not Christian gov
ernment; 1t is civil government strictly
and exclusively; its jurisdiction extends
| only over civil affairs a Christian gov
ernment implies State religion. 1t is
therefore only in the loosest use of lam
guage allowable to say that We are a
Christian nation DIR. Wilkinson forcibly
and justly says that 'it is as direct and pos
tive violation of our national principle
of religious liberty for the civil power to
prescribe distinct textbook of the Chris
tian religion for use in the public schools
as it would be for the same civil power to
prescribe the use of that same text book
of religion in Christian schools Relig-
ious liberty does not mean liberty for the
Christian religion alone, much less for
Protestant Christianity alone 1t means
liberty for Jew as we'll as for Christian. for
Catholic as we'll as for Protestant, for Uni
tartan as we'll as for Trinitarian, for Bap-
tist and Quaker as well as for Episcopalian
and Congregationalist' 1t is gratifying to
think that we may count upon the great
Baptist body to resist sectarian aggressions
in State education"
The Buffalo Christian Aduocate Meth. J
says: "Step by step our church has gone
along the line of the advancement of her