St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20

CLOSE tneiI houses OH SUNDAY, providing
their rivals can be compelled to do the
same. The senator who introduced the
bill solemnly pledged himself in good
faith to do all in his power to secure its
passage. When the bill came up for
final action, instead of advocating its
cause he moved that it be Indefinitely
postponed, and explained that a lot of
preachers had kept still, while he was
pursued by
a Pack of Wolves.
upon another subject. The senator
shows that he lacks the grit of the true
reformer, Notwithstanding the ample
fame that he has made for himself on
the matter TO which he referred with
such pathos. There is no music that so
thrills to action the heart of the true re-
former as the bowls of pack of hungry
wolves. 1t calls him to the conflict like
the voice of trumpetS. Strange things
sometimes happen in legislative halls,
and it is necessary for the distinguished
senator to explain little more fully the
influences which made him prove traitor
to his pledges with reference to this
Sunday theater bill in the very moment
of its victory
A number OF things are urged by our
correspondents as to what may be called
the Institutions Of religion. One gen.
tleman urges thoroughly equipped Y.
NJ. Z. A. building. While | have not
been in sympathy. and am not now,
many fearures of the Y. NJ. G. A in this
city, it must be said that there is no
spectacle more disgraceful than that
covered foundation down in the neigh
borhOod of the high school. 1t shows
lack of preparation or of energy on the
part of its managers or they would not
have commenced to build without first
sitting down and counting the cost;
and 1t shows lack of response to its
highest Interests that the city can per-
NIT the mute appeal of those foundation
walls crying for a roof above them to go
UNDECIDED. Another correspondent de-
mands that the young women be as
we'll cared for as the young men; there
is perhaps no department of general re-
ligiouS work which is SO neglected, and
no other work in which we are so la
mentally behind other cities, as i'll the
Care for Young women
who are employed and who live in
boarding houses.
One of my friends rather loosely, l
think, urges as the greatest religious
need that we should all become Episco-
paians, but there is no humor at all,
and only downright earnesiness i'll the
plea of Rev. Mr.. Pope for the unity
of the church. | cannot help but feel
that the unity for which Christ prayed
was not the unity OF visible corpora
ton. But | would agree most heartily
with all that Father Conway says when
he urges that clergymen of all creedS
unite together upon every question
where it is at all possible. When w.
II. Murray and the Hebrew rabbi unite
to urge that we have more religion and
thROlOpV III &c
it not sign of hope? 1t is i'll
this way that real unity can
come about. When the churches can
learn to Il ink less of their particular
tenetS, and to think less of themselves,
that is, to become unSelfsh like the
Gospel, and TO think chiefly of the work
which lies before us to do, the unity of
the future will become possible. The
primitive unity the church was no uni
formlty in modes of worship or interior
structure. 1t was not the unity of the
convention, tie council or the prayer
book; it was the unity of an overnaS-
tering loyalty for the work of Jesus
Christ III the world. One Of our CORE
SpOndentS makes most valuable point
when he urges that our greatest relg-
iouS need is 4 more vital faith in i'm
mortality. But how can we come to
more vital faith in the souls future ul-
til we evlnce a more active intere.
i'll the souls present? What is needed.
is an enthrOnement of mans spiritual
nature both in our individual and in
our corporate life. In one of the be
letters of the series we are told that e
need the love of God and man instead
of the love of Mammon; but how can tn
be, unless men see that there is wis
dom which is better than gold and more
priceless than gems? The fear of tie
Lord, that. is wisdom, and to depart
from evil is understanding" Our moral
and religious wants may be summed
up i'll that which is only limited at in
the letters. but which must really be
the foundation of them all, what st.
Paul needs first of all and most of all
is profound and
Genuine Revival of Religion.
A broad and genuine revival of re-
ligion would bring about the "unity of
the church, would create public
science" and would permit "plain
sense" to manifest itself Through effort
and patience" | do not mean a revival
after any set forms, after any special
traditions, or through any special ageD-
cieS; but revival of religion that would
so quicken the spiritual natures of our
men and women that they would walk
our streets as though living in sight of
the eternal throne. That would give to
our dropping and weary ones such an
active human sympathy as would be
the true shadow of the divine sympathy.
That would bring the reign of truth and
justice, of honor and honesty, of purity
and love into all hearts, all homes and
all vocations. Having this we. would be
prepared to realize the promise of our
Master, for the glory of God would de-
scend like crown upon the hills which
belt round our beautiful city, and its
praise would be known to all men.