Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-26
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEE,
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Den0ta-
nations. on Many Subjects.

and starving people"
The San Francisco Monitor r. c. says
''The Irish Bishops and priests are CLOSELY
allied to lrelands cause. On the recen
release of William O'Brien from GALWAY
Jail the carriage of the Most Rev. Dr. Nc
| Cormack, Bishop of Galway, was in wait
ing at the gaol, and having driven to tn,
palace, Mr.. O'Brien breakfasted with hi
Lordship. He next drove to Loughrea t.
meet the Most Rev. DR.. Duggan, Bishop o
Clonfert, and the leading men on the Clan
ricardo estate He dined with the Bishor
and afterwards received various addresses
He then proceeded to Dublin, where he
| was overwhelmed with addresses ant
congratulations. When patriots are thu;
honored Ireland's struggle for freedom i:
sure to end in victory"
The Paeifc says; "Those who are fond
of anticipating the advent of new Pope
and his policy, will see, by the burden Of
the recent 'Encyclicar from Rome that the
present Pope is not altogether happy that
he is not encouraged about his restoration
to temporal power, and that he feels the
constant pressure of the Italian civil
power upon his prerogatives and those oi
the clergy. The Italian Parliament dis
trusts the clergy it has known so long
and so thoroughly, and has recently taken
from them the administration of certain
large charitable funds and intrusted it to
distinguished laymen chosen by itself. So
far as Italy is itself concerned, it would
relieve the Pope Of his temporalities rather
than increase them. Nor does Italy pro-
pose to be scolded out of its sense of pro-
priety."
The Pacific says: "The tendencies and
fashion of the hour are agnostic as regards
all realities, certainly all realities of the
unseen world science in the realm of the
senses and nescience in the realm of the
spiritual and eternal; shadows we are
there and shadows We pursue there. 1t is
rather mortifying to think that so many
people III this nineteenth century of our
Lord have gone back and taken no higher
or nobler position than that of Plate,
Surely, students of history know that all
the uplift that has slowly been coming in
the modern centuries has come, not fIom
the agnostic question, What is truth? but
from the positive affirmation Of him be-
fore whom Pilot stood, and who pro-
claimed himself born to bear witness to
the truth. There is a great realm, in
baffled in our inquiries, too. But there is
great spiritual interspace, of which
Christ is the center, where we may lay
hold of the realities of divine love, the
forgiveness of sins and eternal life"
NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
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Advertiser, Gin the Faith-Cure Church, al
Grove and Montgomery streets, Jersey
City, Annie Ryder announced that she
had been cured of blindness. She is Is
years old, and says she has been blind since
she was 2 years old. She attended the
Faith Cure Church, she said, and through
prayers and her own faith her sight was
restored"
All music in the house of God, says the
Independent, should be based upon and
governed by the one great idea that music
as part of the service in religious con-
gregation is an act of worship rendered to
God. 1t should hence be chiefly vocal,
and of such character that the congrega-
tion can join in it. The abandonment of
this idea is perversion Of the fundamental
idea of church music.
The annual movement for the coloniza-
tion of the Jews in Palestine has been
started this year in Pittsburg Such fool
ish action is to be deplored, says the Je1g-
ish TjdingS. What possible charms resi-
dence in Jerusalem can have for American
Jews it is hard to say. The sensible Jews
of to-day have no desire to return to Pales-
tine; those that live in civilization are
satisfied to remain where they are.
On the color-line question in the Episeo-
pal Church, the Church Of To-day (P. E.)
says: Gas to the separate organization OF
the colored congregations into missionary
jurisdiction in each diocese, or one such
Jurisdiction for the whole South, something
may be learned from experience of our
Baptist brethren, who have tried to unite
both white and colored churches into one
Convention, and who have found that the
results were not what they promised"
The difficulty of revival work among
the Partisan French is thus epitomized by
the McAU Record: "The speakers try to
make the Gospel invitation very PLAIN, but
those who are quite unaware that they are
sinners naturally do not feel that they
need Saviour. This absence of con-
science is a great obstacle to work here.
Most of the people think that they have
almost nothing against them, and that
they have a right to all Gods gifts and to
heaven, too"
A prominent clergyman said the other
day that clergymen who are in the habit
of preaching in pulpits Sunday after Sun
Il Tho l.eFa, H.,
world. They have become so accustomed
to speaking and expressing their own
ideas that to sit and hear somebody else
do it is almost intolerable More than
this, the habit of putting forth their own
notions in weekly installments is apt to
make them selfopinionated and breeds a
latent controversial spirit which only lacks
opportunity for development.
The japanese language has no equiva-
lent for our word "hell," but has the word
'.jigoku" instead. Jigoku consists of a.
eight immense hot hells, ranging one be.
low the other in tiers. Each of these helIs
has sixteen additional hells outside its
gates, like so many ante-chambers, so that
there are in all 13G hot hells 2. There
are eight large cold bells, each with its
sixteen ante-hells, making the same mum.
Der Of cold that there are Of hot hells. Be-
sides these 272 hot and cold hells for of
tenders of the common sort, the willy Jap;
have arranged for twenty mammoth hell:
of utter darkness, into which will be con.
signed the lost spirit of children who take
the name of Dai Butsa, or Great Buddha
in vain.
The masculine interest in the curiou:
Order of the Connecticut Shakers, neai
Scitico, has ebbed TO such an extent that
outside labor has to be hired to perform
the work on the Shaker farms. The Shak
ers own three thousand acres Of land, ti
yided into three families-the North, South
and Church party. The latter was inter
viewed through It's well-known elder, Geo
Wilcox, now a man of 20 years. This an
cient community lives in a large brieh
building, erected in the form of a Greek
cross, and has a large public meeting hall
where the Shakers worship by sort 0
march, with singing and waving of hand,
and dance step. Short exhortations anC
experiences, but no sermons, make up th'
service. No instrumental music is allowed
Mother Ann Lee, the founder Of thi
strange religious society Of eeiibates, live
in England in the middle of the last Cen
tury. She was the wife Of blacksmith
and professed to have a revelation tha