The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-01-25

candor the latest conclusions of criti-
cism, which strikingly fulfill the inspired
promise, He that believeth shall not
make haste.'"
The Hebrea0 Standard says: stThe pre-
sentation of the Grand Jury of the county
of New York, which calls attention to the
abuses practiced by a number of pseudo
rabbis in issuing Jewish instruments of
divorces, and proposes the enactment of
law which makes the granting of di-
vorces by rabbits without preceding de-
cree by competent court penal offense.
| is timely and will meet the approval of
every well-minded Jew. The people
who have had the audacity to arrogate to
themselves the authority to grant Jewish
letters of divorce clearly committed not
| only violation of the law OF society, but
of the Jewish law, in the name of which
they committed fraud and crime.
Their letters were not only invalid in
court of law, but even according to the
Jewish law, and they knew that the man
or woman who married under the license
which they granted committed adultery,
| a deadly sin.'
Ofthe proposed transfer of the Sabbath
to Sunday by Rabbi Kleeberg's congre-
cation at New Haven, Conn.,, the He6reao
Journal says: 1--WE can assure our Gem
tile friends that there is but little interest
felt, and that less will be evinced, in Jew
lsh circles concerning the vagaries of
provincial congregation like that in New
haven. Certainly no great amount Of
words Will be lost about the religious
sentiments of body of men so ostenta-
tiously and avowedly actuated in their
religious conduct by purely mercenary
| motives and purposes. Whatever inter-
est may be excited among Jews by the
action of DR.. Kleeberg and his congrega-
troy CynlNt
that afforded by the drunkard who serves
the temperance lecturer as terrible ex-
ample. The action of the New Haven
congregation is convincing demonstra-
| ton of the potency of the argument which
has always been made against Sunday
lectures, that they are sure and effectuaI
means of killing the Jewish Sabbath"
The american Hebrew says: eff DR..
Fleeberg and his followers decide to
transfer the Sabbath, they can only do so
for themselves. They lack the influence
and certainly the power TO do so for any
| one else. We fail to see where any re-
Hgious discussion can be wedged into the
consideration of a matter that is avowedly
placed on the most ordinary business
grounds. 1t don't pay for the members
OF Dr.. Kleeberg's congregation to keep
the Sabbath, therefore they give it up.
That is very simple, but no amount of
palaver can transform such a mercenary
discussion into 4 religious controversy"
%..Thea Independent says: ''In respect:to
the question of the Bible and the public
schools, The Albany LaW Journal fore
IDLY says: The matter can be fairly
| tested by asking any Protestant clergy
man II he would be willing to have the
Douay Catholic version of the Testament
read in the public schools. Hewould not
be willing, and yet the Catholics have
just as fair right to the reading of their
version SIC as Protestants to the reading
OF theirs. In our judg-
ment, the State has no more right to per-
init the reading of the Bible in the COM
mon schools against objection than to
permit the reading of the Westminster
Catechism, or the Book of Common
Prayer, or the Talmud. The State can
not Justly compel the citizen to pay for
the incubation of a religion in which he
does not believe This is putting the
matter in plain, simple and true light.
The only just solution of the school ques-
| ton, and the only one that is really prac-
Gcable, IS to cOnfine the instruction in
public schools to purely secular educa-
ton, which is naturally more or less
moral in its influence, and leave religious
education to the family and the church,
which are its proper agencies. Catho-
lies and Protestants, Christians and
lnfldels, all of whom are citizens
and taxpayers, should be able to agree to
\
lie school for this one purpose. The pur-
pose is large enough and important
enough to justify the institution, without
adding other purposes in which the State
cannot properly participate"
The Freena1a's Journal Or. C.0 saws:
"The following dispatch from Chicago
creates some discussion and is of some in
| terest in itself: THE city Board of Edu-
cation unanimously voted down the
/ no nvt oats frA,., L.
| be read daily in the public schools. The
| report on which the vote was based said
simply that the Committee on School
Management, after hearing the argu-
ments advanced in favor of Bible reading,
had carefully considered the subject, and
decided that for the general welfare of
the schools the prayer of the petitioners
ought not to be granted We venture
to say that the petitioners in this case,
did not represent one-eighth of the citi-
zens OF Chicago. But they are of the
fanatical Protestant type, exceedingly ac-
tive and noisy, and they are sure to raise
rumpus over this excellent and WE'LL
considered decree. The cry of 'Rome's
interference will be shrilly raised and
Justify echoed by the america and the
other % organs OF the know,Nothing, and
Orange societies. But this demand shows
that there is feeling in favor of
religion in the schools. That is well.
Yet be just. The only fair way, the
only possible way, is by the grating Of
the UNCONVENTIONAL upon the public sys-
! tenn. Time and again we have shown
that there are no insurmountable difficult
ties in the plan. The futile objections
made on this score are made for the sake
of oblecting. Christian men of good will
should come together and settle this lead
! ing question ON Just lines.''
The Cumberland Presbyterian saws:
"There is no more delicate performance
than leading in public prayer, and the
most delicate thing about it is that it is
not performance. Yet public prayer is
not for God alone, but for the people also,
that they may hear and join mentally in
fore, be perfectly audible and appropriate.
They should be simple, earnest and dig
nitied. That minister was quite forgetfll
OF propriety who in his prayer at flu
neral quoted passage for the comfort of
the bereaved, and then said, And, o
Lord, thou knowest it is much stronger
in the original While public prayer
should, if possible, be so uttered that all
present may hear the petitions, it is a
serious error to fall into the habit of adj
dressing the audience, thus turning the
prayer into speech or lecture. That
was doubtful compliment which the re-
ing OF public meeting. 1T twas the most
eloquent prayer wrote he, ever adj
dressed to a Boston audience.'n
Thirty Years. Rectorshfp.
Rev. DR.. Edward A. Foggs, the yener.
able Rector of Old Christ Church Episco-
paD, of Philadelphia, has rendered his
resignation. to take effect on October. 1891,
that being the day on which he will ter