Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-02
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations. on Many Subjects.

unuer tne influence OF the HOLY spirit
when at church?p The advocate replies:
"a man who gets drunk is not under the
influence of the Holy Spirit. The probable
ity is he gets drunk and seems full of the
Holy Spirit, and has the grand sensibil-
ity,' and takes on the character of the
place which he is in. Put him under dis
cipline. That will test him. So long as
his case is overlooked he will be drunk and
pious."
The Rev. DR.. Storrs has written letter
to the Independent in which he says of
young men applying for employment to
the American Board "They must be sin
cerely and earnestly evangelical, in con-
viction and spirit, if we are to approve
them. Our examination will very likely
be more particular than that Of an i'm
provised local council. 1t certainly ought
to be, since they are to be sent to distant
lands, to encounter peculiar temptation
and resistance, with few opportunities for
conference with each other, and with no
surrounding evangelical support. If they
believe in the reach of redemption, with
its gracious offers and opportunities,
through the silent ages after death, it will
be better that they should not apply"
| Of the late DIR. Richard T. Littledale
the Cturchman says: 'By the death of DR..
Littledale the Church of England, with
| the kindred communions, has lost stout
champion, brilliant controversialist and
a faithful son. The friend of John Mason
Neale, the correspondent Of Dollinger,
the intimate spiritual adviser of thousands
of earnest souls, his chief characteristic
was vet taste for polemical activity not
always in its suavest form. He was Rit-
ualist who dealt the Papacy controversial
| blows from which it will totter to the end
of its days, and churchman who was
dreaded by his own communion as the
most thorough-going advocate of disestab-
| lishment in English orders. His rich and
varied stores of knowledge, his extraordi-
nary tenacity of memory, made him an an
| tagonist in debate of controversy few could
confront. Yet he is said to have never
made a personal enemy, and his earnest,
spiritual life, his tact and judgment, at
of their conscience"
The Buffalo Christian Adrocate Meth
says: s'With all its drawbacks, there is no
system of church polity that works so
well as the itinerant. Every church, no
matter how weak, is cared for, and every
minister, no matter how humble his talents
may be, is supplied with pulpit Clergy
men of other denominations recognize the
advantages of our system and occasionally
speak highly in its praise. The Rev. DR..
| t. L. Cuyler, of the Lafayette
Church, Brooklyn, in writing on Cruelty
to Minister'S says: The Methodist sys-
TEN works rather hardly on the brilliant
few by arbitrarily removing them from a
congenial field of usefulness But it works
most advantageously for the average min
lister; he cannot be turned adrift at the
whim of q congregation, and if he is not
acceptable in one charge, the Conference
assigns him to another. He is always sure
of home and of bread for his wife and
children. 1t is in our venerable, cultured,
powerful and orthodox Presbyterian
Church that faithful minister Of Jesus
Christ is often left literally "out in the
coldn with homeless household and a
broken heart"
OF the late Dr. Won Dollinger the Lon
don Atheneun says: "a few men might
be named who possibly surpassed him in
minute knowledge of particular periods or
local episodes DIR. Newman in the pre-
ludings development and ramifeations of
Arianism and kindred heresies; DIR. Hefele
in acquaintance with the history and cor
relations of the early councils; Lightfoot
in mastery of the 1gnatian controversy
DIR. Stubbs in the parts played respectively
by the civil and ecclesiastical powers in
the growth of the British Constitution
Schultz in familiarity with all the princi-
Piles and details of canon law. But none
of his contemporaries equaled him in the
wide sweep of his knowledge, while in
certain departments of history-the deyel-
opment of the Papacy, for example-hIs
erudation was confessedly unique. That
branch of ecclesiastical history had been one
of his f;yorite studies for many years, but
he began fresh and special study of it
at the time of the Vatican Council and it
is to be hoped that the enormous mass of
materials which he collected during that
period is left in such shape that one or
more of his eminent disciples will be able
to prepare it for publication. 1t would be
monumental, perhaps an epoch-making
work. 1t was certainly Or. Won Dollinger's
own belief that the vast amount Of new
evidence which he had accumulated would
completely undermine the historic basis OF
the Papacy."
The Examiner (Baptist) says: 1--WE hear
a great deal nowadays about diminished
attendance at church. As a matter Of fact,
we suspect that there is in most communi.
ties as large proportion of church-goer:
as in the mos: devout past times with
which such damaging comparisons are
often made. However that may be, one
thing is true: we do find tendency in
this day to think of churches as sort Of
Sunday lyceums. We are good deal iu
! the habit Of going to church with the OBJ
: lject of being entertained by the preacher
. Perhaps the neglect of the worship idea
, may account, in part at least, for the diff.
Guilty of filling our Protestant churches
The Romanists gather great congregation:
at all hours and in all weather 1t is not
| by offering pulpit attractions, but by press
ing the obligation of worship. We may
sneer at it as superstition. A slight infu-
sion of the same sentiment would be
wholesome for many Protestant Christians
Church vagrancy is a legitimate outcome
of the Sunday-lyceum view. Those who
seek little beyond entertainment in going
to church will go where they can get the
most of it, and will always be drawn by a
fresh attraction. A good deal of our mod
ern church architecture is carefully adapt.
ed to foster this tendency. We have 'au-
ditories' nowadays, and congregations otter
appropriately figure as audiences We
cannot too seriously remind ourselves that
we ought to go to church, first, last, and
always, to worship God, and that every
! thing about the place and the service
should help us to do that"
) The Rev. DR.. Arthur Edwards, in the
Methodist Reriew, thus accounts for the
Methodist Episcopate: Compelled to dc
something, after Bishop I.owth and other;
declared they would do nothing, Wesley
ordained Coke, and in the document
wherein he records his act and motive he
expressly said: For many years / have
, been importuned to exercise this right by
ordaining part of our travelling preachers
but have refused, not only for peace sake
, but because was determined as little a:
possible to violate the established order Of
the national church to which | belong
| The compelling exigency had now come
Wesley ordained Coke as 'superintend-
emit and others as presbyters. Still later,
when he saw that at the close of his life
! his followers at home would fall apart, he
! ordained Alexander Mather as a Bishor
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