The record-union., 1891-08-08

be translated in imitation of our elegani
praise songs and ceremonial chants and
that Christian literature generally be
rendered in the style of the best masters
of Pang q. D. 600-900l."
The Evangelist (Pres.) prints the fol-
lowing portions of letter from DR.. Rob-
ert w. Paterson of Chicago: 81 am dis
tressed about our Seminaries. The plan
of allowing to the General Assembly q veto
on appointments is, [ am persuaded, TN
wise. I question with many as to the
fitness of DR.. Briggs for the place to
which he was elected by the Union di-
rectors, but think it very unsafe for the
assembly to veto the action Of such a
board, especially when trial Of the Pro-
fessor-elect is pending. II must neces-
sarily be in great measure preiudg-
ment of the judicial case. And in most
Instances of veto a judicial case will be
likely to follow, or to be actually pend
ing.
Besides, it is not clear that in ordinary
cases the assembly is as competent a
judge as a well-selected board. More
over, If the assembly We're the more COM
petent body, it could not fail to awaken
dangerous antagonism for it to exercise
such an authority. 1t is not like veto
OF nomination; it is q veto of an appoint
ment, so far as the board can make one,
and it is therefore an injurious judgment
against the Professor-elect and also
against the board electing.
And still further, it is liable to create 8
wide sympathy for the injured parties,
and give currency to the very errors
which it was designed to prevent. This
is evidently so in the present case, in
which grossly partisan action has been
taken. The proper check upon unwisc
| al n ic hn Of l,o
Church, if serious errors are taught by
the appointee. The New School Church
| never lodged any veto power in the AS
sembly. Such power ought not now to
be continued; it is virtually the trial Of a
man without process and without forms
OF law. Not one quotation from DR..
Briggs was made in the debate at Detroit,
SO far as l. heard, and no reasons We're
given in the final Judgment. This was
mOnstrous.'
DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler says. in the
Evangelist (Pres.): ''In some other de-
nominations than our own the exhorta-
ton of the Apostle about rash speech
might well be needed. For example, our
eloquent Baptist brother, Rev. Thomas
Dixon of New York, who is both a brill
liant and courageous man, lately set his
tongue agoing against DIR. Shedd's THE
oIogy, and then went off and left it to
run in the following reckless style. He
said If believed such stuff, I would lay
down my ministry tomorrow, and Join
hands with Ingersoll.' He also said that
| 'hereSy-hunting is born Of heIPl All
very popular clap-trap. But suppose
that my brother Dixon should begin to
denounce from his pulpit the tradition
alists' Of his own denomination, and de-
clare the right of immersion to be un-
scriptural and indecorous. He would
very soon be called to order by his Bap-
tist brethren, and given to understand
| that he was out of place in Baptist pull
pit. What is cheapiy stigmatized as
'heresy-hunting' is commonly simple
| demand that no minister shall betray his
own colors and be false to the standards
of doctrine which he has solemnly
sworn to defend. Freedom of
thought and of speech are very
| excellent things within certain lust
| limitations. But no soldier has a
right to wear the uniform and draw the
| pay of his regiment, and then draw his
musket against his own comrades. or cut
| down the regimental flagstaff. When q
| Christian minister sincerely dissents
| from the vital tenets of his own church,
the honest place for him is outside of its
communion. If his fellow-minister ask
him to retract, or to withdraw from the
church whose creed he rejects, they are
| not 'heresy- hunters but honest men de-
mand1ng honest dealing. [ am quite
sure that my eloquent friend Dixon did
not think twice before he spoke once. or
he would not have given utterance to SEN
timents which make scoffers laugh and
sober men grieye."
The Rev DR.. A. J. Gordon, writing on
1.-THE Preachers Use of Illustration"
in the HoDliletic ReUieW, says: "Dr.
Holiness illustration is brilliant one
The mind of the bigOt is like the pupil OF
the eye; the more light you pour upon it
the more it contracts Capital; but what
| if some shrewd hearer were to answer:
| Yes, and what is the harm if it does con-
tract? This is its way Of adjusting itself
to its work OF clear seeing, even as a
blacLsmith's arm contracts its muscles
to deal q heavier blow Look out
for a relaxed liberalism which di-
lates its pupils at every new and
wonderful discovery of the higher
criticism and meantime is able to direct
only vacant and dubious stare at those
sublime wonders of redemption, the
resurrection, the reign, and the kingIy
glory OF our Emmanuel. What if we
were boldly to avow that the pressing
demand of our times is for bigOtS? For
if Mr.. Emerson, in his last DAYS, had to
confess that our generation appears to q
thoughtful mind ungirt and frivolous
compared with the last, or Calvinistic
age,' what can those who agree with him
| recommend but that the girdle of our
spiritual loins be taken in by two or
three tugs at the buckle. 1t is not popu-
| lar, indeed, to urge theological strin-
gency, either external or internal, OF
creed or of conscience; but it may be
| needful. Rigid convictions make robust
workers. On the contrary, a lax creed.
like an uncoiled watch-spring, never
makes the hands go. As for this con-
traction of the iris under increased light,
a scientific authority says that it effects
sharpness OF definition of the retinal
image Is not that just what is needed
sharpness Of definition? Have not we
heard sermons scores of times III which
an evangelical doctrine was presented
only to be hopelessly obscured in brilliant
generalizations, leaving no weIl-defued
image Of truth upon the spiritual ret
! ina ?''
| THAT tired feeling is entirely overcome
| by Hoods SarSaparilla, which creates an
appetite, rouses the liver, cures headache
and gives renewed strength and vigor to
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