Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-12
III RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations, on Many Subjects.


The New York Freemdn's Journal saws !:
''In our own days there has arisen a school
of women, reinforced by men, who demand
female 'enforcement'-tha is, the right to
put themselves on a footing of equality
with men. 1t is purely pagan. They do
not know il, but it is a movement that
will put women back into their condition
during the old heather times. Respect
for women fingers still as result of Chris
tian principles, though the principles
themselves have departed from polite So
ciety. The simulacrum will endure for a
while, but it will soon fall. The women,
placed on footing of conflict with men,
and no longer surrounded by the sacred
circle of the Church, will find that they
are not strong enough to cope with the
sterner sex, to whom they would become
slaves, like those of ancient times"
"The synagogue" says the JeciSh Hes
seTga, sis less the center of Jewish life and
activity than in previous generation and
different cline. Environment has its in
fuence now as in the past, and it were
folly to deny the new forces or belittle their
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community must be more than Talmudist
and casuist. His seminary and university
studies will be signally useless if he is not
prepared to cope with the new currents in
society and the State, and welcome ten
denotes that point towards human brother
hood and social betterment. 1t is the
brainy pulpit, alive to new conditions, and
full of sympathy for humanity as well as
Israel, not wearing theological blinders
and treading the narrow bigots path, but
broad, alert, and spiritually strong, that
is needed to solve American Jewish prob
lems."
whether marriages should be regu-
lated by law, and determined by the fam
lily physician from knowledge of the an
cestral and family Diseases is question
growing out of heredity which is worth a
careful consideration" says the Christian
Inquirer. "The race is rotting away with
transmitted disease, physical and moral,
which thus far no social science, and no
moral science, and no medical science has
reached. The marriage of persons physi-
cally unsuited to each other is one of the
prime causes of this disease In go per
cent. of cases no question seems to be
asked in this direction. Marriage is based
on fancy, on expediency, on variety of
circumstances that do not include any
questions of physical fitness. That ne
elected and disregarded, makes marriage
vehicle of disease. Well, we welcome all
the light that social science can give US,
and meanwhile we shall try to abolish the
saloon"
Writing on the change of homiletic
style which has taken place in the last
fifty years, the Rev. DR.. H. d. jenkins
says, in the Interior (Pres.): aaron no
longer wears sacred vestment. A sack
coat or shooting jacket answers every
purpose. But is there to be no such thing
tomorrow as sacred rhetoric? With
Hamilton and Hitchcock and Storrs will
the pulpit orator cease and the class-leader
have full possession of the desk? The truth
is that many of our sermons to-day are but
the unbeaten oil of the sluggish priest.
Step by step the ministry has been de-
scending from homiletical nights to horta-
tory depths. 1t is easier to acquire the
patois of the peasant, or the slang of the
slums than the rhetoric of the schools;
and the temptation is to believe it more
effective. For ourselves we doubt it, We
can but fear that, however sweet in the
mouth of to-day the pulpit jest or pulpit
gag may be, the end of it will prove, as
the slow digestion of the little book in the
Apocalypse, exceeding bitter"
"Our Courts and, shame to say, our
churches" says the Standard of the Cross,
Philadelphia, "need to be sharply re-
minded that the marriage ceremony,
under the traditions of Christian morality,
is no mere form of civil contract, binding
only during mutual agreement, but such
lifelong union of man and woman as
Christ has declared to be according to the
putting of this cloak of marriage upon
wantonness, does not lessen, but increases
the sin of wantonness, it is not proved
that it multiplies the instances of that sin.
Some may be deceived and betrayed by it;
but others may be put the more on their
guard, and SO hold marriage in the higher
and more Jealous esteem. There is reason
to think that this is so or, at any rate,
that by this or some other form of COM
pensation the standard of domestic purity
is SO maintained that, on the whole, the
integrity of families, the love of the mar
ried, fidelity to parental duties, and filial
obedience are not less prevalent in some
sections that are overrun with this mis-
chief of legal divorce than in other sections
that boast themselves free from it."
"We verify believe" exclaims the Nash
vile Christian Adrocate (Methodist), 'that
our polity is the most efficient of eccle-
siastical systems for the furtherance of the
Gospel when worked by men of the purest
type. We believe also tha. it presents
greater temptations and opportunities for
ambitious and self-seeking men to crafty
their passions than other systems. Its
whole machinery may be subsidized by
them, every portion of it respond to the
control of willy, plausible and selfish men.
Its positions are spur to their ambition
It's places appeal to their selfshness Its
elections afford the field for the display Of
their unscrupulous ability and their many
sided insincerity and facility. The open
or secret canvass of men for church place
for themselves may not be very common
among US, not very evident, at least-only
seen here and there in its adroitness or
restless solicitude. But that which is the
next thing to this in its badness and bad
results is the canvass by friends and adj
herents. This degrades the church assem-
bly, to an electioneering gathering, lowers
all its elements Of purity, and fills its places
by all the artful schemes of the dema-
gogue and politician"
In commenting upon the recent meet
ing of the State Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton in Albany, the New York Examiner
says: "Such audacity in parading shame
less purposes argues confidence of their
own power on the part of the liquor men
which is, to say the least, alarming. Its
basis in one direction was indicated by the
reply made by the Association Secretary
to delegate who asked how much money
was in the treasury. The Secretary said
The public is not to know all our busi-
ness. They are not to know how strong
we are either in numbers or in finances.
We cannot afford to supply information to
our enemies If in addition to large
money resources the saloon keepers also
have control of political power definitely
engaged on their side, which there is every
reason to fear, they certainly make for
midable phalanx against the best welfare
of the people. What is to be done by
bipartisan, broad minded Christian sentl-
ment and principle to withstand them
The first thing to be done is 10 use this
saloon keepers argument for the trafnc as