New-York tribune., 1890-04-20
IN THE CHURCH PORCH
WHAT THE PARSONS ARE SAYING

WHAT THE PARSONS ARE SAYING
My frieid Thomas Whitaker. OF this city. ha, IN.
brought out little volume Of sermons by Profess,
Alfred Williams Momcre. Of London entitled "chu,,I
and Creed, / am glad that he has done So bee,,
the sermons themselves are well worth reading A..
because Professor Momcric ought to be better KNOW
in this country than he Is lie Is in nv opinion "a,
clcarest boldest and at the same time most prac,e
and reverent Broad Church leader that has ever an
pearcd in the Anglican Church. His sermons A.,
limpd in their ccarness and simplicity trcatin,
the most profound questions in such a way that IA.
merest child could understand them lie is ndea
one of the most original and powerful thinkers Of th.
generation and while he sets aside much that we hav.
all been taught regard essential 10 Christianitr
he at tho same time reveals 10 much which is A
vastly more importance that We can almost forgv.
him. Get this little book and read it. You may M,
agree with many Of its conclusions, but II will max,
you do a lot of thinking.
jot down haphazard a few Of the Profcssors
cpgrammatic sentences to show his style: rM
Church consists of those who are written In heaven
because they have worked righteousness on earth
Unity does not involve uniformity; the highest unity
manifests itself in diversity. The service Of man ia
the service Of God, and an injury done to fellow.
creature is the greatest, and indeed the only injury
which we arc capable Of infictng upon the Deity. 3
Men can get on well enough without any patculf
creed or ritual. But without righteousness they
perish Our eternal destiny depends on our mental atu
tude toward some sentences which an unknown writer
selected from st. Augustine. No stranger. msddcs
delusion ever took possession OF human mind. No
one since the world began ever laid less stress on
crceds than Jesus of Nazareth. Many Of the hes,
and noblest men :vng are Agno,tcs. The real
Christ has been obscured by theology, and for the
theological Christ they feel admiration sympathy
There is only one thing do for the Almighty
and that is 10 perfect ourselves and our race. The
man with high ideal knows that he might escape
what is popularity called hell, any other place
Of torment, and still be lost.
Professor Momerie tells this little story, which
shows how Numerically different creeds may often
produce the same conduct. a friend Of NINE he
says sat next to Cardinal Manning evening
and the night after found himself sitting beside
Mr. Frederic Harrison. Both these gentlemen talked
TO him about their work, about their sermons about
the sick people they had been visiting. about their
philanthroplc schemes, and so forth My friend was
struck with the similarity Of their conversation, and
he said TO Mr.. Harrison, Really, don't
see much difference between you and Cardinal
Manning Mr. Harrison smiled and said Upon my
word think you are right. My wife was saying 70
me only the other day that, though she had always
declared she wouldn't marry clergyman. she was
beginning to wish she had married after ail-th,
| was regular parish priest There could hardly 10
two more divergent crecds than Cardinal Mannings
and Mr. Harrison's yet each Of them Is working hard
and doing his best. spending and being spent TO
ameorate human lives. We may not approve OF
the methods of either Of them. But that the con-
duet Of both is in the main determined by the law Of
love- no one in his senses can for moment doubt
rba Tnhu
Editor of The Catholic Review the other day
called my attention to the greater length OF tho
theological curriculum in the Roman Catholic semi
nary as compared with Protestant seinlnailes' "ouf
theological course he said is now nine years as
against an average OF three years in the Protestant
bcdos This is exclusive OF the college course WHICH
i, generally prerequisite. Long as TINS course ~
we don't think it long enough and there Is now
,eriou, talk OF making it twelve years. think that
Protestant, generally undcrrate the equipment OF our
nrie,ts They seem to imagine that we spend all our
Years of preparation in useless trlfes Inc iact Is
our theological course Is very scNcie anu au'"maD2
Tilted 10 make the priest successful IN Ms ~orM
Besides being thoroughly grounded III the ess'"nss s
Of the Church we are made taar WY, Ss,e" .n'
Indeed a well informed priest cOI!d MAKE oeus.
defence Of proiestat,in than many % %sn are sas "
our Protestant brethren OF the clergy who a, lr r,
know little of catholicism ana are ere eerelog in nswins
rhe Strength and weakness Of our opponents ana suen
knowledge is OF vast help to us IN maintaining 0u'
position
That genial gentleman and all-sronnd scod ieilo~;
Dr iIsnr,. w. Field. Tie Editor OF The Evanselst,,
, ~, % on, "reminiscences the other day Of the Old
Mar DAYS lie is c>pc, alls proud OF me ~ iva, % ~
concealed nero family IN ond d. cy S wa, m one one, OF ts
most ardent Abolltonsts that ever bitatied ana no
pt much abolition AMP ana p,Dih d,Ss hat s wa, cr
cul,tcd by tens Of thous&n nds III tle sdhi,, r. go,
ooctor / asked. what do you coislder le Ifcs.ess
haNa
the war, First he replied. helplne N my snas, @
TO bring aGeat the reunion rS T !q ana % sSond
hclring 10 bring about revision 3i on. . rayn,,
rah But do you know he 1SHe uer6ap~ o "' a, much
Dn my experiences as a traveller a, on NV ciu,@ -
work have seen most that Is Wort. % ses.s M NJ pl,sc
onrrv of tlc world But after all, there i no y..u
hse orr 1rn dea country. h.ye iust h,d 100 e."
charming trip in Florida, and by the way, ~, -
sr,i Of attention getting f." ,narp rap pb,c sc
nv views on the colorcd question! b' 90 o 0O''''
tn that: welcome canuid cIltlcl'M'
Tho action Of the New York Presbyterv in eIectinss
solid revision delegation the coming General As',m hs
bly is Just now subject oi iNes u conaemned
mniu't to The minority. who ought to nave ,rs, Sm,
~nnrc>rntation I'm the General Assembly. Vh Iior ue
ti 4, i maintained that on this question oi % 4,
c ,uc' ~ Nh Pr,sbytery should have delegaugn y
hc General Assembly that will represent lis omos' no
vote That vo,i Ma should m be in favor Of revision
This /, virtually the same a. >aNhs a. sn, how 10
tony has right 10 nl>lTH'R ~ "''' hocr
, on a certain question. an issue mar ha, o ~
sVrcmtlv raised IN political conventions. ,;n, III
aot"y,hilc rycryt ng Indicates that the ieNt nennSs ~
~ n General Assembly will he memoranie "ny: i,ary
~ II viii have the making of good deai VI '''
,,r the PRESBYTERIAN Church
rrh, pcv Howard MacQueary, an tplscopa ';e's, =,
man of Canton. Ohio has Just published po"n sbch
rd The Evolution of Man ana ad nc,rly All
,he tradition, OF the Episcopal Church n,Nrv are
'"ms Of his brethren in the Epsc9pai ans her,nnnc
au him had names Rui after all i saiu slu h " con-
Wr W,cOueary i worse thal "ia,S n ,a,,ed whose
ic,nus Droad Churchmcn who could uc NAM" one Of
attitrdr toward MANY TRADITIONAL "oe
good naturcd contempt.
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