Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-16
In RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TER.S AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
inatiens. on Many Subjects.

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guarded answer wesley read them.'
The Congregatjondlisi says: GA ministe,
In Berkshire the other Sunday thought he
might help his Sunday school teachers anc
| pupils III their study of the internationa
lessons by giving them some idea of the
gospel OF Luke, its writer, character and
intent. In his discourse he alluded Incl.
dentaiiy to its mark of originality and in.
dependence. What was his astonishment
to see in the local paper, q day or two
later, that the Rev. Mr. Blank last Sun.
day evening defended Luke against the
charge of plagiarism"
The Christian Leader UNIV saws: CDR
Boardman, Dr. Storrs and a multitude
more of Congregational doctors are pray.
ing for peace in the distracted Consrega-
tional body. How to give the denomina-
ton peace on this yexed subject is now the
supreme anxiety. Your prayers and YOUR
deprecations, gentlemen, are a waste of
breath. You should know that thew are.
The Congregational mind is thinking on
this subject. Its heart has ALWAYS felt on
1t. There will never be any less THINKING
than to-day; and the more thousbt the
more rebellion. You will never know
peace, gentlemen. 1t will come, but not
In your day. And it will come when the
Congregational body is Universalist-when
1t acknowledges no limit to the love and
power of God"
The Homiletic Reriew saws. at has Ioro
been matter of surprise and regret to US
that our English Bible-the very fountain
and conservator of pure Anglo-Saxon En-
gilsh-as classic unequalled by anv pro-
ductlon of human learning and genius. to
say nothing of the sublime morality and
the divine religion which it teaches
should not have had place, and the first
place, IN the curriculum of college and uni
verslty studies, and critical and thor
ough knowledge of it be regarded as essen
tlal to liberal education. But this has
not been the case. Every other classic
save the venerable, the inspired, the sacred
classic OF Christian thought and history
and life, has found place, while this has
been thrust aside and relegated TO the
study and the pulpit"
The C6nyregationalist saws: "Tbe con-
science OF an editor of religious newspa-
per Is supposed to be always particularly
sensitive, but Its processes of self-discipline
are seldom more effectively illustrated
than In last weeks Presbyterian. Its edi-
tor begins with paragrap phi giving an ac
count OF the immersion of baby bv an
English rector, adding this comment !:
We hope the baby cried Then he fol-
lows Immediately, in self-approach, with
paragraph on the folly and irreverence
and injurious example of indulging in
'sportlve badinage over religious ordin-
ances,' and then does penance by writing
an editorial on Visiting the Graves Of
Christian Friends No wonder the edito-
rial page closes with long and touching
obituary. Taken together they are an
obJect-lesson on what man may come to if
he makes fun of ordinances"
A correspondent of the Uurchann writes
" DIR. Hopkins letter in your issue of Feb
ruary lst, and the quotation from DIR. Nc
Gosh, that he would like to have a shorter
and simpler creed than the Westminster
Confession, at the same time containing
all the saving truths embraced in the con-
sensus of the Churches remind me of a
little incident that occurred some wears
ago. A Presbyterian DID, from the State
of Princeton, had wandered into the wiIds
of Central Pennsylvania, where he met a
friend of mine, and of DR.. Hopkins. In
the course of conversation he remarked
that he had often wished for brief and
clear authoritative statement of the doc
trlne of the incarnation 'Why, it seems
to me, answered our friend, that we could
hardly ask for any better than we have
=" The only begotten Son of God. begotten
of His Father before all worlds, God of
God, Light of Light, very God of yery
God, begotten not made, being of one sub
stance with the Father, BY whom all
things were made: who for US men and for
our salvation came down from heaven. and
was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the
Virgin Mary, and was made man, sAh.'
said he, that's very good. Where did YOU
get it?"
The Central Vest pres saws. 1--WE have
already quoted DIR. Schaff' against himself
in the matter of the 'elect-infant' clause in
chaper 10, section 8, of the Confession. He
has laid himself open to an equally severe
and damaging arraignment in his state
ments touching the decree of reprobation
and preterition. Writing to the New
York Evangelist in November last in the
interest of revision, he asserts that the
Gallican, Belgic Second Helvetic, First
Scotch and bort Symbols are silent on the
decree of reprobation and preterition.'
DIR. Shedd, however, in the Presbmerian
and Reformed Reriew of January, 1890.
quotes from Schaff's 'Creeds of Christen.
DOM and convicts him out of his own
mouth 1T is to us amazing that DR.
Schatf, in his zeal for revision, should nos
itively deny what he had deliberately
affirmed in a carefully written work ouly
a lew years ago. If these things were
matters of opinion, the Doctor might re-
ply, as he did on the floor of the Presbvtery
recently, that he had changed his mind ::
but they are matters of fact. To elimi-
nate reprobation from the Confession the
Doctor denies that these ancient SYMBOLS
cited contain what he had previously
shown they did contain, Quos Deus ruh
perdere, prtus dementat'"
The Rev. George Deshon, writing in the
Catholic World on the public schools, saws
"What are Catholics asking for in regard
to education? Simply to be put on an ex-
actly equal footing with their fellow-citi-
zens. They have not the slightest desire
to use the public school system as an in
strument for proselytizing the children of
their neighbors who are not catholics.
But, on the other hand, they do not want
their own children to be proselytized at
the public expense above all, not to have
their own money used for their own spirit
ual destruction We do not
want to be taxed for that from which we
receive no benefit. Oar fathers in the Re
public refused to pay taxes to the British
Government because they were not repre-
sented in it, but at least they had show
of protection, and Great Britain was re-
sponsible for the maintenance of public
order. We get no benefit from the public
schools, but positive injury and inius-
tice. The State is asking of us much more
than she has right to. We acknowledge.
that she has the right to see that all her
citizens are educated so as to fulfill all the
duties of citizenship. She can use the
means necessary to bring this about> but
not naeans which are not necessary. IF
Catholics provide satisfactory edaeation
for their children, that is all that the State
has right TO ask. Why cannot the State,
by some general law (which need not
allude even to religion), enable the indi-
viduals who have paid the taxes TO get
back, under suitable conditions, what they
have paid? Then the first principle of
Justice would be satisfied. 'Iiibue sum