Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-23
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that rule was, so that it would be even
possible for them to obey it? Would YOU
| not place his name on the role of infamy,
, beside those OF GenghiS Khan and Tamer-
lane, who piled up their pyramids of hu-
man skulls? And vet YOU impute to the
! Almighty Creator, the father of all man
! kind, the God aud Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, treatment of His creatures
which would brand human sovereign as
a monster of cruelty. Such defense of
| the confession as this makes the case a
| thousand times worse. If you do not
abandon this hyper Calvinism, the church
Will. The principles of right and Justice
are not changeable thingS-one thing in
| this world and another in the next; one
! thing with man and another with God
but lmmutable and eternal: and by that
! law which Is enthroued in God himself it
| Is settled for ever that that which would
be cruelty in man cannot be mercy in
God"
The Christian onion says: "Men not in
tereSted in religion There is nothing
neither fashion, politics, nor busiuess-in
which they are so profoundly interested.
What they are not interested in is unrelig-
ion in a religious garb and with religious
phraseology. Neither Phillips Brooks
nor Dwight L. Moody spends time in dis
cuSSing politics or sociology or ethics.
They deal with the fundamental truths;
with the spiritual life; with the relation of
men to God; they speak to men rs sons of
God. No lesser theme could command
| such continuous attention. Not even in
political campaign could the most famous
OF political orators give a Succession of
SIX lectures on the tariff or the Southern
| question and command such hearing rs
Phillips Brooks has commanded for his
diScourses on redemption. lecturer in
Filth Avenue on success in society, or in
Wall street on success in business, could
not easily get an audience for one day dur
ing business hours: Mr.. Moody gets
double audience in Fifth Avenue. and
Phillips Brooks could easily have had a
| double audience, if he could have addressed
| II, at the head of Wall street Aud ;heir
theme Is religion Nol brethren of the
| ministry, do not imagine that men and
women have ceased to care for the Chris
| tian religion. II they do not care for
| your preaching, either you have not the
| religion of Jesus Christ, or YOU do not
know how to convey ii TO souls who are in
| need of it. The world is as truly bereft
without God now as il ever was: 1t is as
hungry for hope, and it is as true now as
| when Paul lived that to be goddess Is to be
| hopeless. Whoever has sympathy with
men and touch with God, and knows how
to make men feel the presence and power
the gracious presence and gracious
power-of God, never lacks for men and
women eager to listen to the story of
Gods grace, ii not to receive the gift of
His love-"
The ChriStiGH Inquirer (Bapt.) says: "As
| long as man behaves himself and
breaches the Gospel the press does not
| trouble him. His sermons are not re-
| ported, and his name does not get into
| print, and he lives in his obscurity. hav-
| ing his reward only in his own conscience
and the approval of God But let him
wound Christ in the house of his friends,
deny the Gospel, fling out some mouStrous
| theological error, break loose from the
| Christian world, and he becomes famous
at once. The press pets him as if he was
young lion. He is lifted upon stills of
| theological falsehood until he can look
over the heads of the old ecclesiastical
| giants who have made their names famous
| by their learning and their piety. He
becomes taller than Paul, and every theo-
| logical photograph gallery hangs his por-
trait beside that of the great teacher of
| Gaiilee. 1t was so with DR.. Newton, and
| the wonder was what he might grow to
and what his destination would be- But
the man of the unanchored faith sur
prised his votaries on a late Sunday by
tacking ship and sailing towards Rome.
| Whether he has found that aynosticisin
don't pay, and that mis- notoliety in that
| direction is at an end, or whether he has
really become tinctured with Rom1sh no.
tions, no one can tell until the ship an
chors or touches land. But if he believes
all he said OF Rome, in his extravagnnt,
energetic way, he can hardly fail TO be. far
from going over to the Roman communion.
The intellectual curiosity of the whole
thing lies IN the rebound A short time
ago the man was sailing directly on the
bare rocks of agnosticism now he is
within pilot-limits of the Vatican. Such
a case as that Of Dr. Newton has its les
sons, which ought to be studied by all men
of unanchored faith. Some meu anchor
very early in life; some never anchor
Their mental anchorages are such that
they drift. If no storm comes they are
safe, but If they meet a cyclone they are
wrecked. We are surprised sometimes to
see men who have studied theology twenty
years or more shifting about as if they did
not know what they believed They
have never anchored-ever learning and
never able to come to knowledge of the
| truth