The record-union., 1891-08-22
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
Expressions from the Various
Religious Newspapers.
The Religious Thought of the Day as
Expressed in the Sectarian Press
Some Matters of Interest to Both
Ministers and Laymen.

The Independent says: ''One of the
worst forms of the higher criticism
that of Hermann Schultz - leaves US
everything in the Old Testament which
we want for our Christian SYSTEM This
we copy from an article by Professor
Frank Hugh Foster of Oberlin TheoIogi-
cal Seminary in the August Magaziae OF
Ch?1stid21 Literature. Is Oberlin about to
follow Union ?"
The Western Christian Il dUocGte Meth J
says: 'No preacher has any right to in
wade his church with strange doctrines
and still claim the patronage and priVi-
leges of that church; and this is so in
face of the fact that he may have the
truth and the church be in error. Politi-
cal economists say that an organized
body has right to itself. 1t has a right
to conserve its organic life, to build and
perpetuate It's economy on the basis of its
own dOctrinal beliefs. When organized
under the compact, the sOundnesS of the
compact is not at issue with the individ-
uals OF that compact. There are rightful
and just means by which the errors OF
| creeds may be eliminated and the truth
substituted. No member of any leading
Protestant church is deprived of an equal
opportunity with all the others to make
all wise and necessary fundamental
changes in that body; but this opportu-
nifty must be used in the way by which
all changes are safely made"
The Catholic Champion (P. e. saws OF
the admission of DIR. Phillips Brooks to
the Eplscopate: I'VE are very unwilling
to indulge in the blowing of trumpets.
but we believe that even our adversaries
Will admit the excellence and glory oi
our inheritance and the fair lot with
which God has blessed us in making us
a power OF righteousness among the
clearest and sOberest minds of our nation.
we did suppose, also, that a majority of
our bishops saw that this eminent mis-
sion was committed TO us by God because
we had been glad to submit to and eager
to maintain the authority of His Holy
Word and OF the faith once delivered to
the saints. Surely we have heard as
much from them in various utterances,
individual and collective
ct what have they now done? They
| nave admitted the very man who DIS
for the world and worldliness. who is
! opposed to all tiXity, who cannot abide
the notion ofan American church which
shall stand upon a hill that Americans
may look to it as a city Of refuge, who
would have doctrines and methods CON
unually changing to meet the sentiments
of the public from time to time. who, in
| short, looks to man as the voice of God,
and not to the voice of God as the life oi
man-they have admitted this person.
not as an individual, but as the acknowl-
! edged representative of the faith-destrOy-
! ing school, to their own sacred guardian
| office. They would not teach as he does:
| they would not even suffer him to come
/ and preach to their t1Ocks, but they will
| give him the power to Ordain preachers.
and even to cOnsecrate bishops"
The LiUi,1g Church (P. E. says: ''We
repqdi9te the idea Of panic We have
no doubt that truth viii prevail in this
church, as well as in the holy church OF
all time throughout the world We be-
| ieve this, because we think il is manifest
| so far as man is able 10 Judge, that God
| has great work for the anglican com
muniOn, and that a great destiny is in
store for her. This has been felt even by
alien and by no means friendly observers
| like the French de Maistre early in this
century. The wonderful indications OF
| Gods providence in the history of the
! American church gives us confidence that
/ He has great mission in store for US.
and that in the future, as in the past, His
/ protection will not fail. These cOnsidera-
| tiOns may well impart to churchmen
| courage, hope, and enthusiasm in their
| work for Christ, but it by no means fol-
! lows that they have no work to do, nor
! struggle to pass through, or that they
! have the right to be indifferent or luke
warm when truth, which it is their mis-
| sion to maintain, is assailed We believe
! that the high destiny of this church may
! be FASTENED or retarded, according to the
measure of courage and faithfulness
! which her children, and above all her
| chief stewards, may exhibit in guarding
| the priceless trust committed to their
| hands"