Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-02
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspaper
Representing the Various Denom-
nations. on Many Subjects.

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"a man who gets drunk is not under the
influence of the Holy Spirit. The probable
ity is he gets drunk and seems full of the
Holy Spirit, and has the grand sensibil-
ity,' and takes on the character of the
place which he is in. Put him under dis
cipline. That will test him. So long as
his case is overlooked he will be drunk and
pious."
The Rev. DR.. Storrs has written letter
to the Independent in which he says of
young men applying for employment to
the American Board "They must be sin
cerely and earnestly evangelical, in con-
viction and spirit, if we are to approve
them. Our examination will very likely
be more particular than that Of an i'm
provised local council 1t certainly ought
to be, since they are to be sent to distant
lands, to encounter peculiar temptation
and resistance, with few opportunities for
conference with each other, and with no
surrounding evangelical support. If they
believe in the reach of redemption, with
its gracious offers and opportunities,
| through the silent ages after death, it will
be better that they should not apply"
| Of the late Dr. Richard F. Littledale
the Gturchman says: "By the death of Dr.
| Littledale the Church of England, with
| the kindred communions, has lost a stout
champion, brilliant controversialist and
a faithful son. The friend of John Mason
| Neale, the correspondent Of Dollinger,
the intimate spiritual adviser of thousands
| of earnest souls, his chief characteristic
was yet taste for polemical activity not
always in its suavest form. He was Rit-
ualist who dealt the Papacy controversial
blows from which it win totter to the end
of its DAYS, and churchman who was
| dreaded by his own communion as the
most thorougl-going advocate of disestab-
| lishment in English orders. His rich and
varied stores of knowledge, his extraordi-
| nary tenacity of memory, made him an an
| tagonist in debate of controversy few could
confront. Yet he is said to have never
made a personal enemy, and his earnest,
spiritual life, his tact and Judgment, at
| tracted many to seek him out as the guide
of their conscience"
The Buffalo Christian AdrOcdte Meth
| says "With all its drawbacks, there is no
system of church polity that works so
we'll as the itiuerant. Every church, no
matter how weak, is cared for, and every
minister, no matter how humble his talents
may be, is supplied with a pulpit. Clergy
men of other denominations recognize the
| advantages Of our system and occasionally
speak highly in its praise. The Rev. DR..
| T. L. Cuyler, of the Lafayette-avenue
Church, Brooklyn, in writing on Cruelty
to Minister'S says: The Methodist sys-
TEN works rather hardly on the brilliant
few by arbitrarily removing them from a
congenial field of usefulness. But it works
most adyantageously for the average min
lister; he cannot be turned adrift at the
within of g congregation, and if he is not
acceptable in one charge, the Conference
assigns him to another. Hei is always sure
of home and of bread for his wife and
children. 1t is in our venerable, cultured,
powerful and orthodox Presbyterian
Church that a faithful minister Of Jesus
Christ is often left literally ''out in the
broken heart"
OF the late Dr. Won Dollinger the Lon
don Atheneum says: GA few men might
be named who possibly surpassed him in
minute knowledge of particular periods or
local episodes. DIR. Newman in the pre-
ludings, development and ramifcations OF
Arianism and kindred heresies; DR.. Hefele
in acquaintance with the history and cor
relations of the early councils; Lightfoot
in mastery of the 1gnatian controversy
. DIR. Stubbs in the parts played respectively
by the civil and ecclesiastical powers in
the growth of the British Constitution
Schultz in familiarity with all the princi-
pies and details of canon law But none
of his contemporaries equaled him in the
wide sweep of his knowledge, while in
certain departments of history-the devel-
opment of the Papacy, for exampie-hls
erudation was confessedly unique That
branch Of ecclesiastical history had been one
of his f;vorite studies for many years, but
he began fresh and special study of ii
at the time of the Vatican Council, and il
is to be hoped that the enormous mass OF
materials which he collected during that
period is left In such shape that one or
more of his eminent disciples will be able
to prepare it for publication. 1t would be
monumental, perhaps an epoch-rnaking
work. 1t was certainly Or. Won Dollinger's
own belief that the vast amount of new
evidence which he had accumulated would
completely undermine the historic basis Of
the Papacy."
The Examiner (Baptist) says: 1--WE hear
a great deal nowadays about diminished
attendance at church. As matter of fact
we suspect that there is in most commune
ties as large proportion Of church-goers
as in the mos: devout past times with
which such damaging comparisons are
often made. However that may be, one
thing is true: we do find a tendency ir
this day to think of churches as a sort O
Sunday lyceums. We are good deal IL
i the habit of going to church with the Oh
: lject of being entertained by the preacher
, Perhaps the neglect of the worship idea
, may account, in part at least, for the diff
Guilty of filling our Protestant churches
The Romanists gather great congregation
at all hours and in all weather 1t is moi
/ by offering pulpit attractions, but by press
ing the obligation of worship. We may
sneer at it as superstition. A slight infu.
sion of the same sentiment would bt
wholesome for many Protestant Christians
: Church vagrancy is legitimate outcome
| Of the Sunday-lyceum view. Those who
seek little beyond entertainment in goine
to church will go where they can get tbs
most of it, and will always be drawn by a
, fresh attraction. A good deal of our mod
ern church architecture is carefully adapt
ed to foster this tendency. We have 'au
, ditories' nowadays, and congregations offer
appropriately figure as audiences We
, cannot too seriously remind ourselves thai
we ought to go to church, first, last, ant
always, to worship God, and that every
, thing about the place and the service
should help us to do that"
The Rev. DR.. Arthur Edwards, in the
! Methodist Reriew, thus accounts for the
Methodist Episcopate: Compelled to Dc
something, after Bishop Lowth and other,
declared they would do nothing, Wesley
ordained Coke, and in the document
: wherein he records his act and motive he
: expressly said: For many years / have
} been importuned to exercise this right by
ordaining part Of our travelling preachers
but have refused, not only for peace sake
, but because | was determined as little a,
t possible to violate the established order o.
the national church to which / belong.
The compelling exigency had now come
Wesley ordained Coke as .superintend
ent, and Others as presbyters. Still later,
when he saw that at the close of his liz
i his followers at home would fall apart, he
J ordained Alexander Mather as a BishoI
! for England. In both cases there was ext