Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-02


of arraignment-reaching its conclusions
under the most comprehensive aud the
best of Light, never accepting, without
proof incontrovertble, the allegations of
accusers. That the committee vindicated
at all successfully such a character fails TO
appear IN the premises. The endeavor. if
not the aim, would seem 10 have been not
to strengthen the administrative arm of
the Board, but rather to weaken it,"
The Rev. Charles E. Perkins SAYS. in
the URitGrjGn Rsriclg: II recognize verv
fully that the pulpit has Its limitations:
and, when | say it has not only right,
but a duty, in respect to the great
questions of the time, do not claim for it
the privilege for meddling with what it is
not fitted for discussing, or of dragging in
a subject which does not clearly come
within its scope. l claim Ito illustrate)
that the pulpit Of this church is the place
in which the questions of purity in poliii-
cal methods honesty in elections fidelity
to public trusts, and fitness for public
office can properly and advantageously he
discussed. | claim this because all these
are primarily moral questions, and because
your minister if he be in any sense worthy
TO be your minister, is fitted by his train
ing, his study, and habit of thought for
considering their moral bearing"
The most Rev John Ireland, D. D.,
SAYS, in the Catholic World: LET me
speak as a Catholic | know | will be
blamed for my rashness and credited with
objectionable exaggerationS and, may be,
with untruths. There are those who fain
would veil from public gaze the gaping
wounds; there are those who, limiting
their observations to their immediate en-
circling, do not believe in the widespread
disasters, the knowledge of which appals
me. But speak | will, and let me be
called, as Theobald Mathew was, fanatic
and mailman. Intemperance to-day IS
doing Holy Church harm beyond the
power OF the pen to describe,
and unless we crush it ont,
Catholicity can make but slow
advance in America. | would say, in
temperance is our one misfortune. With
all other difficulties we can easily cope,
and cope successfully. Intemperance, as
nothing else, paralyzes our forces, awakens
in the minds Of our non-Catholic fellow
citizens violent prejudices against us, and
casts over all the priceless treasures of
truth and grace which the church carries
in her bosom an impenetrahle veil of dark
ness. Need | particularize? Catholics
nearly monopoliZe the liquor traffic; Cath
olics loom up before the criminal courts of
the land, under the charge of drunkenness
and other violations of law resulting from
drunkenness, in undue majorities; poor
houses and asylums are thronged with
Catholics, the immediate or mediate vic
tins of drink; the poverty, the sin, the
shame that fall upon our people result
almost entirely from drink, and, God
knows, those affections come upon them
thick and heavy No one would dare as
sert, so strong the evidence, that the dis
grace from liquor-selling and liquor-drink-
ing taken from US, the most hateful enemy
could throw a stone at US, or that our peo-
pie would not come out in broad daylight
before the country as the purest, the most
law-abiding, the most honored element in
its population. And still-mystery pass
ing strange.-the Theobald Mathews are
few, and these few are timid"
The National Baptist says: "On the one
hand every one should serve God willing
ly, freely, of ready mind. But, on the
other hand, we know of no law that one
should serve his fellow-men under all cir
cumstances without charge. When man
breaches, sings, builds meeting house, or
takes care of it, or furnishes material for
it, or makes gas for it, he is serving God
and his fellow-men both. And We know
of no reason why his fellow-men should
not pay him for what he does for them.
Greatly in point are the words of the
Apostle Paul: Il mean not that other
men should be eased and you burdened
there should be an equality Here is
church in which there are a dozen men
possessing from $4,000 to 100000 each.
They give, we will say, $50 to S100 each a
year towards the support of the church.
Here IS a man in humble station who has
only his tine and his brains. He has an
aptitude for Sunday-sche554t labor; the
church with great unanimity makes him
Superintendent. The work eugrosseS IS
heart and his hands, and draws heavily on
his time. Whatever it takes from his time
is taken directly from the support of his
family. Is there any reason why the
church should expect him to give, say $500
of time a year to the church, while men
vastly more able than he give tenth as
much Here is a young woman whose
voice and her musical education. To sing
on Sunday is draft on her strength. And
there is the practising, the meeting with
the choir, the coming so many times
week, rain or shine, sick or well; mean
while she is offered, it may be, S500or 5000
or more at some other church. Now, to
ask her to sing for nothing is to ask
her to give, she penniless young woman,
ten times as much as the men of wealth in
the community. Is this just? The same
thing applies to mission work We are to-
gether engaged in advancing Christs
cause; it is of the nature of partnership;
each puts in what he has; one, skill; an
other, money; another, voice. At North
field, DR.. Gordon mentioned this incident.
At one of Mr.. Moody's meetings in Bos-
ton, Mr.. Moody, as was his wont, held
each evening an inquiry meeting, which
he called casting the net Then he
called for testimony from converts. At one
of these meetings was Mr.. Weston, a
wealthy merchant, who said to DR.. Cor
don, Well, Mr.. Moody has cast his net to-
night, and he has caught fish that is
dumb; | cannot talk or give my testimony
as Mr.. Moody desires DIR. Gordon re-
piled: You know one fish was caught
that had piece of silver in his mouth
That piece of silver, many times repeated,
was found in Mr.. Weston's mouth. We
are of opinion that the personal oral testi-
mony of many man of business is worth
far more than he thinks; but if he feels
that God has called him to make money
for the Lords cause, let him have fellow
ship, partnership, with his brother less
gifted in making money, but endowed with
the gift of persuasion and religious labor;
or with the woman whose lips God has
touched that she may sing for him. Let
the rich give in proportion as the poor; 90
not let the heaviest end come on the
feeblest; that is cruelty, that is injustice,
that is savagery."
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