Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-05
In RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspaper.
Representing the Various Denon-
nations, on Many Subjects.

shocked by Professor Briggs book
"Whither ?' The National Presbyterian
SAYS: "The views of Professor Briggs need
no refutation. Their absurdity is appar-
ent." And the Central Presbyterian says:
"After a careful perusal of the book, it
seems to us that 'WhitherT is very sig
niGcant question as applied to the drift of
DIR. Charles Augustus Briggs"
The Christian at Work, in referring to
the Shorter Catechism and its exclusion of
the heather, says: "No chance here for
the salvation of the centurion Cornelius,
Experience Mather's praying Indian
mother, had she never met him; no chance
for Brainard's praying Indian woman, had
she not had Christ presented to her; no
chance for Myat Ryan, had not that
heather and the missionary met. That IS
Westminsterism No; it was Westmin-
sterism. 1t is such no longer. Herein we
rejoice, and fn6 additional cause for
thanksgiving"
The C6nqreqationaIist says: "It seems as
if the Alliance had been wakened into
activity at the right time, and by divine
| breath. New forces are developing in
society, which, if misguided, will result
only in ruin; but, if rightly guided, they
will bring untold blessings. The leaders
| of the Alliance have great responsibility
and great opportunity. They have been
| wise and jealous, and have won to large
degree the cooperation of the churches.
They have succeeded in summoning to
new duty every disciple of Christ in an
hour full of critical meaning and large
hone, If the response is according to
their prayer, the future of Christianity in
our country is bright with promise"
1t was Elder Buzzeil, says an exchange,
who called on worthy deacon to open a
meeting with prayer, and was surprised
when the good man began his petition
with: "Oh. thou great, insignificant God"
"Omnipotent, brother; you mean omnipo-
tent God" whispered the Mortified pastor
Huh w calculated the surprised suppli-
cant. whats that you say?" The
preacher repeated the correction, where
upon the deacon continued his prayer to a
great length, and concluded as follows:
"Finally, Lord, bless our dedicated parson.
Stuff him with religion as we'll as words,
break him of the habit of fault-fndin', if
possible, and at the 'leventh hour gather
him with the saints in thy kingdom"
The Christian Adrocdte (Methodist) re-
lates an incident and points moral in
reference to religious culture of children,
! as follows: "No one can tell what queer
notions children will get from religious in
struction unless subjects are fully explained
to them. A primary teacher in one of the
schools of Independence, Kan, was talk
ing to her class about peacemakers, and
asked, What is a peacemaker? Two
hands were raised; one said, "A peace
maker makes pieces of tnings;' the other,
, HE makes pieces for us to speak, Yet
some persons think that if child, on be-
| ing asked if it wants to go to heaven,
raises its hand, it should at once be re-
ceiyed into the Church and admitted to
the holy communion. Children need line
upon line, precept upon precept.' Their
| religious emotions and ideas should be
Systematically cultivated. In ancient times
they were depressed and discouraged, but
the tendency now often is to hot-house
growth-a springing up quickly of the
seed, but no depth of earth or strength of
root"
The Wdtchman (Bapt.) is not in accord
with the ''new departure" of the Evan
| IL
ganized, and organized solely, as a society
for propagating the knowledge and the
life of Christ among men. Otherwise
stated, it was an organization for publish
ing and making known the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, especially so in Europe, not
/ emitting our own country. In particular
manner its mission was understood through
a long period to be to plant the institu-
tions of the Gospel where Romanism, as
representing a corrupted Christianity, had
choked out those institutions, eclipsing the
| central and vitalizing faith revealed in
the New Testament to the view of multi
tudes. Far higher than any other issues
| is the one issue of the propaganda of
pure and uncorrupt Gospel. 1t was, as al
ready set forth, that in the interest of just
such a propaganda, and that alone, the
! Evangelical Alliance was formed at the
first. Whenever it shall depart from this
! its prime notwithstanding in its gather
| ings like suudry convocations called con-
gresses,' grand debating centers, there will
come occasion, surely, for lifting a note of
protest, lest the salt that was for SO many
wears in it become possibly
worse than that"
/ AT the NO0llTIu tCcINlNS Oh ]AuNShI
Sunday at BlackwelPs Island Almshouse,
Crest in the Lord Ia phrase from the
words of the anthem was taken by Bishop
Potter as the text for an appropriate dis
course. ''The words in the sacred song
said, The Lord will give thee thy desires,
but" said the Bishop, their desires were
to-day not the same as those of their
vouth.D He reminded his hearers that no
sanctuary in the world was so sacred to
| God as the temple OF the soul, which was
not built for the qualification of gross appe-
tites. "The other day." he went on to say,
Gin one of those great tenement-houses
across the river, there lay on a bed of
death girl scarcely thirteen years of age.
She had been the head of household of
motherless children, and she had worked
for them and slaved for them. Day after
| day when the father went out to earn
living, she was left with the care of the
little ones. At last she broke down under
the burden too great for her to bear. AS
she lay there girlish friend came to her.
The dying girl said, 4 am afraid | am not
| fit to die / have done so little for Jesus.
What shall say to him when l meet him?
Her little friend looked at her hands,
which were Scared with work, and an
swered: Il think, my dear, if were you, l
would show Him my hands. He will
understand" "Show him." continued the
Bishop, "what you have done and he will
understand"
The Freenldn's Journal K. c. says:
''The National Evangelical Alliance have
been holding their annual meeting in Bos-
ton, with the view chiefly of discussing the
alarming decrease of attendance at Prot
estant churches, and of devising means to
put a check TO it. Perhaps
Bishop Huntington, who spoke at the Bos-
ton Conference, hit the true answer, when,
in the midst of these earnest gentlemen's
wrestling with the problem of evident
Protestant decay, he interlected sharp
inquiry that may bear good fruit in some
thinking minds: May not the MONACO
ceptance by the masses of the Gospel that
we preach be because it is not the Gospel?'
That is the very point of fact. The sects
! lack that very essence of truth, the kernel
! of heroic deeds. All their creeds are dead
creeds of denial Whatever of good
may be among their followers springs
either from merely natural virtues, or
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