Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-22
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
NAT1 ERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.

| A6Ao AMI LA mGN.
EXPRESSIONS of Opinion by Newspaper.
Beprese uting the Various Denom-
inatio us, on Many Subjects.
The Catho|ic Champion (P. E. says: "In
New York there is a Church Club of lay-
men, organized TO further the interests OF
the church and better knowledge of her
ways. 1t is rather mournful commentary
on the principles of this organization that
1t gives its annual dinner-a fve-dollar
affair, at Sherry's-on Wednesday, May
18th, an Ember Day, on which the church
requires such measure of abstinence as is
more especially suited to extraordinary
acts and exercises of devotion"
!, The Christian Enquirer (Bapt) saws.
Church unity, it is sometimes said, is in
the air" but how to accomplish it has.
been the difficulty. A friend sends us a
copy of the Cincinnati Enquirer by which
1t may be judged that Presbyterians and
Baptists are already joined For, in the
midst of report of the proceedings of the
General Assembly, following the names of
the Revision Committee on the Westmin-
ster Confession, comes the Report of the
Committee of Nominations for the Amer
lean Baptist Home Missionary Society.
and discussions of that body, followed by
the names of the Presbyterian Committee
on 'ooncensus creed The Enquirer has
certainly secured denominational unity in
very short order"
The Examiner (Bapt.) says: at is Gu
rious fact that in the recent exposures of
corruption among our city officials no allu-
sion is made to their profession of religion
as members in good and regular standing
of the Catholic Church. Whenever Pres
ident Harrison or Secretary Wanamaker is
criticised, great point is made of their
Inconsistency as Presbyterians. But it
does not seem to occur to anybody to ac-
| cuse Croker and Grant, and Flack of in
consistency as Catholics. So with regard
| to defaulters or embezzlers. If they are
deacons or Sunday School Superintendents
in Protestant churches, the fact is tele-
| graphed the world over. But if, as in sew
| eral recent cases, they are Romanists, no
| attention is paid to it. Does this indicate
that there is different standard, and that
a Roman Catholic profession of religion
| isn't expected to mean as much as that of
Protestant If not. why not a'
The Christian Leader (Univ) says: "The
kernel of the question of copyright is laid
bare, and with his usual precision and
felicity, by Mr.. Lowell in these two sem
tences: The adversary has cunningly en-
trenched himself in the argument that
there can be no such thing as property in
an idea, and grant that this is fallacy
of which it is hard to disabuse the minds
of otherwise intelligent men, But it is in
the form given to an idea by man of
genius, and in this only, that we assert
! right of property to have been created
Ideas are only then capable of being
identified and held as property when an
| author has put them into form which
somebody can make money out of. If no
money can be made out of them, they are
property, and the owner should be placed
on the same legal footing with the owners
of other property"
The Christian Adrocate Meth SAYS: off
| the Presbyterian Church will agree that
| Arminianism shall not be bar either to
| the holding of the eldership or to induc-
tion into the ministry, then the herdsmen
of Calvin and the herdsmen of Arminius
can dwell together in peace, and Presby-
terianism will take the longest stride
towards Christian union that has been
taken since the Reformation began. If
this or something equivalent to it be not
done, one Of three things must follow: l.
The elimination of these passages. or a
modification of them equivalent to an
elimination; or (2.) The addition of few
meaningless words which will leave the
| substance as it is; or 81 No modification.
and the growth within the body of practi-
cal Arminianism OF these, the first will
unavoidably divide the Church; the second
will be victory for the Confession of
Faith as it now is; the third will contri-
butte to break down the reverence for con-
sistency and devotion to acknowledged
standards, already too greatly impaired"
Commenting on the preamble and reso-
luton touching the public school system
| adopted by the Presbyterian General As
sembly at Saratoga, the Freeman's Journal
| Or. c. says. with their position that
| moral training must be based on religion.
| otherwise its sanction will not be strong
enough to grasp the consciences of the
| people, or its utterances obligatory enough
| to shape their character we entirely
agree. Our principles thus far being the
same, why can we not reach some point of
agreement as to application? Provided
they consent to admit voluntary schools to
the public system, and will labor with us
to this end, we shall stand with them for
their fullest rights to have whatever re-
ligious instructions they choose in the
schools that fall to their share. Such an
arrangement would strengthen, not weaken,
the public system. But so long as they
continue to deny us our just rights in this
regard, so long must we insist that, in
cast-iron, unelastic system, no religious iu-
struction of whatever character can be
given"
The Central West, writing on the ques-
tion, elias the Papacy Any Settled Policy
for the Destruction of Our Common-school
System" says: This is the policy. And
active steps are being taken to carry it
into effect. The priest who has the ability
to establish parish school and does
not do it, commits an offense against his
church which is considered a sufficient
cause for removal from his position. The
consequence is that Catholic schools are
springing up in great numbers, and every
thing possible is being done to weaken the
hold the common school system has on
| the mass OF the people. Demands are also
being made for public and private funds
to carry out the objects, and the demands
are not only being made, but they are
being made with such urgency and i'm
portunity that in many places they are
being granted in large sums. And we, as
American citizens, have been so criminally
indifferent to the stealthy encroachments
of Rome, and are even yet so, that the
| papal power, manifested among us, is lur-
ing us on, and even leading us TO assist
her in giving the death-blow to our own
institution of which we have been so
Justly proud"
A correspondent of the Gristion Register
Unit writes: "As altering hymns is
under discussion in your columns, perhaps
you will be interested in the following
incident: l was to preach one Sunday
in a well-known Unitarian Church of New
England. The organ voluntary was to be
followed by an anthem or selection by the
choir The organ and choir were in the
rear of the pulpit; and l was somewhat
startled to hear a strong, clear soprano
voice break out with
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