Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-17
II RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS.
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
of Ophnion by Newspaper
Representing the Various Denom-
nations, on Mlsny Subjects.

Representing the Various Denom-
nations, on Mlsay Subjects.
The Russians are preparing to build :
church over the mouth of Jacobs Well, il
Palestine. The spot has long been Gov
cred by mass of old debris ard rubbish
| The Bishop of Montreal has declared
himself in favor of the abolition of pew
rents. He says he recognizes the advan-
tages of having an appointed place in the
church for everybody, but at the same
time free accommodation is desideratum
"Let everyone" he adds. "do what he can
| in the direction of free churches"
The Congregationatist, writing on the same
subject, says: eve deprecate as sincerely
as Bishop Ireland can the necessity for SO
far secularizing the public schools, but the
respon lbility belongs with him and his
church, and the absurd haggling as to
which of the two versions of the Bible SO
nearly alike as the Protestant and Douay
versions shall be read tells its own story
With reasonable concessions on both sides,
1.-THE schools, so far as Protestants and
Catholicsare concerned, might be permeated
with religion to much greater degree
than is now the case. One thing is GER
tain,. the only safe motto throughout the
land on this subject is Let the public.
school money never be divided"
The Independent, discussing the address
of Archbishop Ireland before the school
teachers at St. Paul on the subject of re-
ligion in the schools, says: "The fact is,
there is no compromise possible. 1t is
either free church or enslaved church. Our
institutions are based on the free-church
/ system, and Catholics like it, and we must
defend them and ourselves against any
other. 1t works WELL Sir Charles Dixie
says that Russia and the United States are
| the two most religious countries in the
I world, and for this reason the most danger
Gus in war If we want to keep people
religious, We must trust the Church to teach
them, and not the State; and this is
equally true for Catholics and Protest
ants"
| There is much rejoicing in certain cir
cles-which, by the way, include society
generally-in the fact that the Queen has
thrown open the East Terrace at Windsor
Castle to the public on Sunday afternoons,
when the band of the Coldstream Guards
is engaged to play selection of lively
airs for the benefit of the 1000 persons
who last Sunday took advantage of the
royal concession. A very natural conse-
quence of this act has followed rapidly on
its heels, and the London County Council
is called upon to inaugurate without delay
system which shall provide martial
music in every open space of the city on
Sunday afternoons, and popular recreation
on that day has passed from a party cry
into an imperative and universal demand
which it were inhumanity to refuse.
'The question brought before the Epis-
copal Church in the MacQueary case, and
| before other churches in cases that resem-
BILE it, is not pre-eminently one of theology.
but one of morals" says the Vatchmda
ave cannot help asking, why should men
like Mr.. MacQueary remain in any body
of orthodox believers? If they are as
they claim to be, honest men, why should
they not seek fellowship in the organiza-
tions to which they naturally belong? Or,
failing to find congenial fellowship in
other bodies, why should they not take an
independent stand, and make the best of a
disagreeable position? We do not wish
to cast an imputation on their integrity,
| but it seems to us as if they were deter
mined to take advantage of their orthodox
affiliations, and to attract attention by the
novelty of the spectacle that they present"
| The Christian Adcocate (Nashville) says
"The true preacher will not permit HIM
self to be diverted from his great work by
other issues, no, not even by great moral
questions Great moral questions will re-
ceiye due attention in his regular minis
| try; but he will not suffer himself to be-
| come a specialist, even though many of his
people may demand it of him, and though
some may discount his devotion to 'prin-
| ciple' because of his refusal to treat a
symptom when he is commissioned to cure
| the disease. Here lies one of the dangers
of our times. Specialists consort and CO.
operate with other specialists of other
communions; catho.icity degenerates into
| Observation-Disclosures; men who thus separate
| themselves may become very much de-
voted to each other, but love for the
| church walies. The church is in danger of
disparagement, and is driven to the border
of strife and division, if, indeed, not forced
over and into it. The true preacher will
| be man of one work; and this one work
will embrace moral questions; but this one
work will not permit him to take up any
one moral question, and to make it the
staple Of his ministry"
The Giristian Register says: "The Rev
| Charles r. Weld preached a few weeks ago
a very plain sermon to Baltimore Sabba-
tarians. They have been complaining OF
the demoraiizing effects of Sunday base
ball; but Mr.. Weld points out that, so long
as they persist in closing galleries of paint
| ings, museums and libraries on Sunday,
| they have no right to condemn the work
| ingmen for seeking athletic diversion. Mr..
| Weld did not make plea for Sunday
| amusement, but rather for such large,
| noble, and unselfsh use of Sunday that
trivial ans sements would seem undesira-
| bic. Cardinal Gibbons has expressed his
general agreement with the position of
Mr.. Weld and these gentlemen are not
likely to advocate any changes incompati-
BILE with public morals. In Boston, the
public library and art museum have been
opened onsSunday for some years, with the
best results. In New York the art museum
| is closed but the workingmen and chill
dren can watch the monkeys playing tag
in their cages, and perhaps get as much
/ dtDuSCiASh~ do iAOih q SoAiS vi OaSOboii.
Such are the curious distinctions that are
sometimes drawn"
The Presbyterian Bonner says: "Again,
as strong reason for not sending Catholic
children to the public schools, the danger
of acquiring unbelief there is constantly
insisted uron. Now, has the Catholic
Church, where it has been the national
church ami where it has had the most un-
limited field for education, Kept out inf
deity? Not by any means. Take, for the
first exaIfple Itaiy-the seat of Roman
Catholic Church authority. The Pope
himself has denounced again and again
the infdelity rampant there in the Gov
ernnent and with those who control pub
tic sentiment. France was Catholic
country, the established church was the
Catholic, and there infdelity produced the
horrors of the French revolution, and
there to-day it is manifestlng its hostility
against that church. = 1t is. there.
fore, plain that where the Catholic Church
has had, and even now has, every possible
facility for instructing its people, Il doe.
not educate; that Its oversight, and what
ever it does supply does not produce a su
perior education does not produce a su
iperior morality or thrift, AMI that it
undisputed sway in education and all it
other service are no insepaEsble barrie
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