Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAyMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Repres entins the Various Denom-
nations, on Many subjects.

The CoAgreg0tiondttSt says: I'VE are
sorry that so careful a paper as the
Richmond Reliqious Herald was quite
so fast in printing the story from the Ifi-
bune that John ID. Rockefeller is about to
endow, to the extent of $4,000, 900, Bap-
tist University in New York City, and we
are also sorry that so good paper as the
Tribune should have consented to print
such a story without first knowing it to be
true The fact that it nowhere said in so
many words that the scheme was decided
on by no means justified its publication,
for it knew perfectly well that the i'm
preston left by its article would be that
the institution was about to be started,
when really there was no foundation for
any such statement"
The Ciristiaa Inquirer (Bapt.) says the
Coagreqdfioadlst tells this story: Did
the Rev. Mr.. So-and-So speak wellg Il
never heard him do better; you see he
didn't expect to be called out, and so he
had no time to prepare any spread
eaglery.' This snatch Of conversation was
overheard the other day, and suggests that
preparation for public effort may be
oyerdone. 1t is well to aim high, but he
is wise man who has learned that one
does not necessarily have to soar to say
something worth hearing" We may add
an incident eonfrmatory of this: Some
time since, going to an association, we sat
in the car beside the brother, one of our
most eminent men, appointed TO preach
the opening sermon. Another minister
came along and asked him about his SER
mon. He replied: II am going to preach
the same sermon / used last Sunday morn
ing, for my wife told me if | prepared a
special discourse | should make a fool of
myself"
The Examiner (Bapt) says: "a funda-
mental propriety relating TO the Sunday
day school is that it should not be the
children's church. We lately heard an
intelligent and devout member of one Of
our city churches say: No children come
to our services any more. They 90 to the
Sunday-school, but we do not see whole
families together at church, There is no
question that a tendency in that direction
exists. 1t has often been recognized and
deprecated. Protests against it have be-
come commonplace. But the evil is real
and serious. Nothing can make up to
children for the loss of the church-going
habit and the formative, educating inhu-
ences of regular attendance on public
worship. A great many of the wisest and
best people do not hesitate to declare their
conviction that if in any case or for any
reason there must be choice between
church and Sunday-school, the school had
better be given up, and not the church"
The Christian Leader UNIV says: 'The
Congregqtionalist, by the incidental wis 'onI
of its scissors, gave place to bit of theol T
ogy which, had it appeared as original in.
the editorial columns, would have given al
shock to its conservative readers The
sagacious scissors make this excerpt fromI
Ruskin-the italics are our own: Is there
but one DAY of judgment? Why, for us
every day is day of judgment-every day
is dies ira, and writes its irrevocable,
verdict in the fame of its west Think yold
that judgment paitS till the doors Of the grdpe
are opeaeds 1t waits at the doors of YOUR
houses, it waits at the corners of your.
streets If thsre can be a truer thing
than the true, this utterances of Ruskin
comes under that head. For more than a
century Universalists have iterated and
reiterated the doctrine of present and
continuous Judgment, as opposed to the
dogma of day of judgment, and this id
the unseen world"
The latest English religious papers
abound in comment on Cardinal Newman.
The Record says; at has been again and
again brought as a charge against the
Church of England that she had no room
for a man of such unique gifts as Newman,
and that she drove him out Cheap sneersl
of that sort are so easy to make and sol
trivial in significance that it is scarcely
worth while to elaborate replies; but we
cannot help thinking that far more re-
markable circumstance has been over
looked. DR.. Newman joined the Church
of Rome at the age of Al, in the full ma
turity of his powers, in the possession of
wide experience, and with absolutely
nothing to quench activity. Even his mis-
takes he had slipped away from, because
they could be put to the account Of the
communion he had left Yet, what has
Newman done for Rome or for mankind
under the auspices Of Rome? Absolutely
nothing What should have been sort
of new birth has been a collapse and an
annihilation. If the Church of England
could not keep Newman, assuredly the
Church of Rome could not use him. Com
pare the unbounding vitality and influence
and enterprise of his Anglican days with
the cloistered seclusion and inadequate
tasks of E1gbaston. The Church
of Rome has had such men within its folds
before. 1t sometimes canonizeS them when
they are dead, bnt it never trusts them
when they are alive. The work of Rome
is not done by such men. A very different
type is necessary to drive and to direct the
machinery of the Vatican"
Even the ultra-Protestant Rock says:
"The great fault Of his life was that of an
error of judgment, and no man suffered so
deeply for his mistake as he did. His was
not that type of mind that could yield
slavish obedience to the Romish system,
so that though among them, it NAV be said
with truth that he was never Of them.
Altogether it was difficult
to think about the career of Newman
without an inexpressible feeling of sadness.
There was so much that was noble, pure
and good in his life, and he was so richly
endowed with natures gifts, that one can
not but feel that his life might have been
so different, and he might have done so
much good to his countrymen. Had he
been born in less controversial age, his
sanity life and simple character might
have won many to that Savior whom he
loved so devoutly. As it was, he has done
much to mislead his fellow-creatures, and
to sow the seed of religious strife that are
likely to bear fruit for centuries. Yet one
cannot but feel that his errors were those
of his intellect rather than those of his
heart"
The Church Times observes: "It is aston
ishing that the arguments of so great
man and SO formidable a controversialist
have accomplished so little The men
who went over after him were attracted
far more by the magic of his personality
than by the force of his reasoning. The
'Apologia' is a classic of literature, a mas
terpiece of autobiography, and matchless
controversial tour de force. But as polemic
on behalf of the Roman against the An
glican Church, We take leave to doubt that
it has convinced single reader.
In fact Newman belonged, in mind as in
age, to former generation. He had but
little sympathy with the newer methods of
spirit effort of which Cardinal Manning
avails himself so adroitly. He had no
sort of touch with the common life of the
people"
And SO the Tablet Or. C.): "To the last
he was denizen rather of the ancient