The record-union., 1891-02-22

testify most loudly for the weariness O
sectarianism, and longing for bette
unity than now exists among US. Th
one is in the realm of doctrine, and i
called The Evangelical Alliance Th
sects are not yet willing to give up thei
sectarianism, especially when they know
that the claims of the other Sects to au
thority are no better than their own. Blu
in their yearning for some sort of unity
they come together on certain occasions
on the same platform, for public haran
CUES and brotherly speeches. They dt
1t, however, on the express understand
ing and agreement that each membe
shall leave his own sectarian peculiaritie:
outside the door, and then, with on,
voice, they tell the dear public that they
are entirely agreed in all the essentials
of the Christian faith
",The other is in the realm Of gooC
works, and is called The Young Mem.
Christian Association Its members alst
agree to leave their sectarianism outside
the door, and then unite in proclaiming
to the public that that they are entirely
united in the performance of all Gospe
good works.
But they seem never to suspect the
ultimate result of this sort of business
and it may take q generation or two tC
bring about a full realization of the mean.
ing Of it, which is this: If not one of al
these sects is, by their own confession
necessary, either by the integrity of the
faith, or for the performance of Cos.
pei good works, in Gods name why
should they be kept up at all ?"
A correspondent of the London C1tasrcI
Times writes thus pointedly:
1T Darkest England, page 1S9, General
Booth says, with regard to the work OF
the Salvation Army among the fallen:
We have about thirteen homes in Great
Britain, accommodating 307 girls,
together with seventeen homes abroad
The whole constitutes, perhaps, the
largest and most efficient effort of its
character in the world
Now, the Church Penitentiary Asso-
cation has been appealing in your col
umns and elsewhere for help for the
eighty-three homes connected with it,
which last year restored over $500 to re-
spectacle life. / hope that we shall not be
forgotten because ignored by General
Booth in the very extraordinary claim he
makes as above"
OF modes of baptism the Church Times
says: baptism by immersion was the
general rule OF the Apostolic and Primi-
tive Church, and continued so for the first
twelve centuries, from which time began
the innovation of affusion in the Western
Church. But the latter mode was prac-
uced in some cases, as in clinic baptism,
and the quantity of water used has never
been held to affect the validity OF the sac
rament."
Under the title of 1.-The New Italian
Mission" the English Church ReUie,o saws:
THE expression which stands at the head
of this article, and which is quoted from
the Archbishop of Canterbury's recent
pastoral to his diocese, bids fair to be-
come historical. 1t has already aroused
the criticism of sundry Roman Catholics,
one OF whom, writing to the Times under
the nom de g9te,Te of a Descendant of Sir
Thomas More has been ably answered
by well-known Evangelical Church
man, p. V. Smith. This gentleman
writes:
1.-The Descendant of Sir Thomas More
asks in your columns to-day why he and
other old English Roman Catholics are to
be told that they belong to the new Ital-
ian Mission The answer is simple. Be-
cause their church in this country is now
presided over by the hierarchy which
Pope Plus TX. established in England
forty years ago. Before that event the
term would, of course, have been inap-
propTiate. Till then they We're the old
Roman Catholic Nonconformists of the
country, descendants OF those who Sc
ceded from the Church of England in
1870, in compliance with the bull fulmin-
ated by Plus V. Your correspondent
y
Canterbury, declaring that the ancient
Church of England is with u.s. and asks
II we are prepared to adopt the pre-Re-
formation prayers, the sacrifice OF the
mass, and the seven sacraments. May
ask him in reply if he is prepared to
adopt the saying of Gregory the Great,
who sent Augustine to England,
that 'whoSoever calls himself universal
bishop is the precursor of Antichrist?' Is
he prepared to allow the cup to the
laity, which they partook of in England
until 1888, and marriage to the clergy,
which was not absolutely prohibited un-
til the end of the eleventh century? Is
he prepared to leave transubstantiation
an open question, as it remained until the
twelfth century? If not, he, at least, can
not claim that the ancient Church is with
him. Is he prepared to surrender the
dogma of the Immaculate Conception, de-
creed in 1854, and that of papal infallibil-
ity, decreed in 1870? If not, he can
scarcely claim that even the medieval
Church is with him.
The Churchnaan says: "We believe that
the form OF service in church workers,
which the brotherhood implies, will have
attractions for many minds. There are,
and always will be, diversities of gifts
and dlverslties of operations in the Church
of Christ, and people are fond of saying
to Rome was the outcome of tempera-
ment. Now, this is very wide admis-
sion, and 1t is time for the rulers of the
Church to ask if this Temperament,
with its characteristics of unworld-
liness, religious enthusiasm and genius,
cannot find place for its congenial
expansion and activity within the
Church Of England and its branches.
Enthusiasm especially, which wishes
to break its alabaster box once
and irrevocably at the feet of duty and
devotion, is thing which must in these
days be reckoned with. 1t is not too
much to say that some have left the
Church in which they were born, bap-
tiZed, and even ordained, because it had
grown uncongenial, not because of its
abstract dogmatic teachings, but because
1T scarcely seemed 10 furnish opportunity
for the particular line of life, work and
devotion which the temperament of the
individual demanded, and which he saw
could be given in another communion.
This motive is not the highest that exists
for a change of faith and practice, but it
is real motive, sometimes felt to be ire
slstlble. 1t is source OF gratitude to
God that the Church is beginning to
utilize it; that practical men are Begin
ming to acknowledge it, and quite apart
from the question of a particular work
only 10 De done IN particular way, are
beginning to see that this par
of attractions for some earnest
young people as others find in the explo-
ration of continent, the excitement of
war, or the tumult of politics. By all
means let the life of brotherhood stand
where our Lord put all such departures
from the ordinary life of the world, he
that is able, let him receive it, -
''Farmton," in the AdUdnce, offers the
following problem: "Giyen-A church
OF 400 members; a pastor of vigor, intel
lectual and spiritual, of good taste, of
love for the brethren and each brother; a
prayermeeting of an average attendance
of Savantv-five Il mem her of three score