Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-09
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 Freemdn's Journal Or. C) says of
Bishop Loughlin of Brooklyn: "He intro
duced the Visitation Nuns, the Sisters of
St. Joseph, the Franciscan Brothers, the
Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of the Good
Shepherd, the Little Sisters of the Poor,
and other religious orders that he deemed
designed to do work. For, singular to say,
the Bishop has little use for the numerous
contemplative female orders. He wants
workers, and them alone. He still more
opposed to male religious orders-in this
respect being sort of Cardinal Manning
of America. He has admitted little col
ony of the feeble Lazarists. But to the
Jesuits, the most powerful of orders now,
he has sternly closed the door; nor have
the next three most powerful orders-the
Dominicans, the Franciscans, the Redemp-
torists-fared any better. He thinks secu-
lar priests, who are at the orders of the
Bishop, better than priests concerning
whose appointments and charges he would
have to be eternally consulting their su-
periors in Italy or France"
Of the six days. in Genesis, President
Howard Osgood, DID,, writing in the hide
pendent explains the teaching that these
were ordinary days as a Protestant inven-
tion. He says: Clement of Alexandria,
Origen, Crysostom, Gregory of Nyssa,
Basil, Athanasius, Ambrose, Augustine, all
hold the days to be signs Of order, arrange
ment, and not definite limits of time; and
the following ages, until the Reformation,
produced no one who was bold enough to
dispute their teaching. Luther and Calvin
are the first to reject the interminable al
legories of the Middle Ages, and to declare
these days six days; though neither of
them explains how he understood day.
We must come down to the last of the
seventeenth and the beginning of the
eighteenth century before we find men who
make it point of orthodoxy to believe
that the DAYS of Genesis i. were days OF
twenty-four hours. So far as the history
of human opinion outside of the Bible can
aid us, it shows us that up to the Reforma-
ton no one taught that these days were
of twenty -four hours; that opinion would
have been heresy to the pagan, to the
Jew, and to all Christian churches"
On the matter of religious statistics the
Liring Church (P. E.) says: "The contrast
between the church membership of the
collective Protestant churches, counting in
the Episcopal with the Roman church,
is fallacious and misleading. 1t has been
explained and exploded thousand times;
yet intelligent journals are found to re-
iterate the error. Judged by common
standard of decent, religious living, such
as already prevails in the Protestant
churches, which shuts out all notorious
evil-doers, the Roman church would at
once collapse to very moderate proper
smaller by thousands who infest police
stations, reformato,ies, prisons, aims
houses, with those who are saloon-keepers,
practical politicians who are for the
most part profane and profigate, and with
that formidable drift of floating popula-
tion, the criminal and dangerous classes, at
once the terror and the despair of the
great city, most of whom are Catholics,
registered somewhere. Besides, Rome
counts all her baptized children. Should
the Episcopal Church report her bap-
tized young, who have not received con-
firmation, as church members-precisely as
it is her duty to do, by the way-there
would be still less disparity in the com.
parison."
The Flaming Sword (Koreshan, Chicago
says: "The demand for the location of the
primary grouping or gathering together Of
the heterogene of the formulating mass is
absolute. In no other way can there be
an augmentation of that potency gener.
ated as the desire for the Lords manifes.
tation, and upon the regulation of which
depends the Lords appearing. The world
demands the Lords advent. The desire
for His coming is not now centerd upon
Him, because there is no knowledge of the
divine method The Lord will come
through and as the effect of desire; but for
desire to be effective in the accomplish.
ment of the glorious object of the genuine
Christians love, those who inherit this
love or desire must be gathered into q
group or community, that through the
collation. of this very flesh of Christ-the
desire for the Lords coming-the augmen.
tation of power will be commensurate with
the occasion. Not only is there to be az
augmentation of the potency of desire
through the gathering together in COM
munital relation Of those who love the
Lord, but the potency of desire must be
energized through its education end disci-
pline, through which it may be moved in
a given direction and made to center in an
absolute unit or pivot. The Lord will moi
come to His people till that people bring
their love TO focus. That focus does not
reside in a dualistic concept. 1t obtain:
only in the cognition Of the unity of God
in one person, and that person in resident
as the truth of the Word manifest in the
natural humanity"
The Churchman says: "If there are
any permanent clergy at all, it is the ex.
ception proving contrary rule. How
many priests are there who remain FIVE
four, three, or even two years, with theil
first charge? How many who remain fol
life in the same charge? Outside of, say
a score of parishes in the whole land, i:
any clergyman expected to remain perma
nently in parish to which he goes? The
clergyman generally does not expect it
the parish does not expect it; nobody ex-
poets it. The pastoral relation, if it can
be properly called such, is fully understood
to be temporary; and as free divorce brings
many ruptures that would never happen
under better law, so the expected rupture
of the pastoral relation nearly always hap
pens. In this course of constant breaking
up the parish never gets the best care oi
the pastorate, which can be given and re-
ceived only after long acquaintance. More
and more the so-called pastoral relation
has become a mere relation of employer
and employe. To the layman it grows
harder and harder to regard the priest as
Gods servant-not his own; to the priest
it grows less and less easy to regard his
office as trust from God, not chiefly a
means of living for himself OF our few
thousands of clergy there are not few
hundred who feel themselves reduced tc
the position of hirellngs dependent on
their Office for their bread, and not sure
that they shall have it very long The
craze of the time is tor young men, the
dead-line of the ministry is drawn at 81
years of age-that is, at the very age al
which men in other professions are sup
posed to be at their best. Woe to the
cleric who loses his parish at or after thu
age of 80. Unless he has means of hi
own, or can turn his hand to some othe
craft, he has little to look forward to il
this life"
| the Christian Union saws. "Whether W,