Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-09
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTERHS IT TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAY MEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various d enom-
nations. on Many subjech'.

nations. on Many sub5ech'.
! The Congregdtionalisf says of DR.. tori
latest letter: "We believe that these sci
timents will command the earnest co. u
dence and almost unanimous approval
all Christian people, and it seems to I.
that the deliverance of the Board from IL
present perils, and its entrance upon &
career of even more than its old and wonted
prosperity, lie in future shaped and con.
troiled by the policy thus outlined
| Prebendary Eyton, writing inthe Eaq7Isss
illustrated Magazine, says: 'The distinction
between Sunday games and weekday ones,
or Sunday tunes and weekday ones; is. 4
relic Of that hateful system which cut
life into two, and left the thought ofGod's
service out of work and play alike. |
should be glad to see cricket match on
every village green on Sunday afternoons,
and the games of every institute as freely
used as on weekdays. There can be no
better relaxatlons than our ordinary En-
glish games, and it is thousand pities to
prescribe them as unfit for Sundays"
OF the progress of revision among the
Presbyterians, the Independent says: 'fWhen
the General Assembly meets and goes over
the returns from the presbyteiies, it will
find that so many elements enter into the
problem before it that an immediate solu-
tion is not within reach. The one thing
that is certain now is that something will
have to be done in the near future; if not
revision, new creed; if not new creed,
a declaratOry statement; if not a declara-
tory statement, modification of the terms
of subscription. The last we regard as the
least probable of all the methods sug-
gested."
The Con9Yegationalist says: "There are
those who say they think the world is to
be saved bysome other means than Christi
anity; but such persons believe that the
only choice is between accepting the whole
Gospel or rejecting it altogether. This is
tie way the Netg Ideal, an organ of what is
called free religion, puts it: who really
doubts to-day that Congregationalism and
! Episcopalianism are broader and more
progressive than Unitarianism or Univer-
salism? If religion" alone could ever
really save the world, it would be saved by
active, wide-awake orthodoxy, and not by
dead Or only half-alive heterodoxy'"
The Christian Estelligencer (Refd) says
"A great many novel theories and dis
puted questions about Daniel and his
prophecies have been raised by Biblical
critics and advanced thinkers of the ra-
| tionalist school in our times. But this
which follows, and which beats the free
thinkers out of sight, is from the article
Daniel in the 'Schaff Herzog Cyclopedia,'
by Prof. Delitzsch, who says, He was
thrown into furnace for disobeying the
royal command to bow down to a golden
image (Dan. 4)'h Who is responsible for
this amazing latter-day news? Is it the
author or the editor? Even the reference
is wrong, for the story of Nebuchadnezzar's
in the third chapter of the Book of
| Daniel"
"Farmton" says in the Aduance: ~ al
ways feel a sense of gratitude when a
family asks me to go with them upon the
sad errand of committing precious dust to
dust. | often question myself as l stand
beside the open grave as to matter of
duty in that simple act of uncovering.
Shall |, with the winter snow lying about
me- the mercury below freezing, and the
wind blowing hard, remain with my hat
off for half-dozen minutes Every oc-
casion on which do it l think l am
tempting Providence to dig also my
grave; and yet somehow never feel like
saying the blessed words of the hope of the
resurrection without showing whatever re-
spect it is possible to show. This may not
be a wise dictate Of the head, but it is
surely the impulse Of the heart. What
should minister do under such circum-
stancesp
The Observer (Pres.) says: "These state
ments of DIR. Storrs clearly define the posi-
tion of the Board and its Prudential
Committee. 1t would be strange, after
such definition, for any man to seek to
force himself upon the Board while hold
ing any distinct future-probation theory.
Only those who wish to make trouble, and
who have at heart determination to carry
out certain preconceived notions, will en-
deavor to urge upon the Board the ac-
ceptance ofiany candidate committed to the
larger hope 1t happens often that man
mistakes his obstinacy for religious con-
viction, and that he finds satisfaction in
posing asa martyr to his convictions at
very little cost. He who is filed with
burning zeal for missionary work in this
connection oaght to hold the doctrines
which have found favor with the evangel-
ical missionary boards and committees fol
century. On the other hand, man who
has decided convictions about the larger
hope, and believes in after-death proba-
tion for the heather, would do better tc
stay at home and give his labor.
for those for whom he entertained no such
hope If the heather abroad are to have
an opportunity after death, they have
more than the heathen at home have, and
these latter are the ones for whom every
effort should therefore be made. Let
those go abroad who believe in only one
way and only one day of salvation, and
that way Christ and that day now"
The Liring Church (P. E.) says: 9Th,
Ipurge anything, but to remove and ere
mate or inter the unsavory debris Of {
: long -perished horror. No man believes ii
; it. 1t terrifes nobody, and it only abide
. a bad odor and spent hallucination, gooC
only for concentrating the gratuitous as
, saults of profane and scurrilous infdelity
, Do Presbyterians ever reckon up theil
dead and wounded on the field since tn,
dreadful days of Jonathan Edwards? DC
they remember the wild sweep of Arian
ism, and Unitarianism, and Rationalism
. and even insanity over New England, an(
through the northern line of States, follow
ing the New England theology, as remorse
less as a prairie fire? The Five Points
also swept the way clean and clear for tina
,, whirlwind of Methodism that struck our
shores at lower latitude, and fascinated
and captivated the masses with the stor,
Of lovable and merciful God, as mad
known in Jesus Christ, the Good Man, ou
Brother after the flesh. And the multi
tudes who have gone over into Romanisn
|, from the Protestants have gone, as all tn,
world knows, in quest of a God Of Low,
and mercy, denied them in the Calvinisti
Communions Our Presbyterian brethrer
are Justly and logically impatient unde
the situation, where they are confronte,
by the ghosts of perished system, whicl
no man believes and no man dare preach
The Central WsSs (Pres.) says: 18th
!, class of revisionists 70 which DIR. Maryi
z 7 Vincent belongs do not Ike the Pan
j Line theology. Is it were liz their powe
;. Ito revise the BiSle, chapter after chapte
lwould be eliminated from PauPs epistle
and the hand cs the revisisnists would nc
forbare to tcach some of the reeorde
A tu.terances os the Divine Master. TIL
| ,roYocffior, 80 r,,oira rne.o1v verbal al.ar.