St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-11
EPISCOPAL HERETO.
One Of the Men Who Are Des-
tined to Lead the Coming
Age.
DR.. Vail breaches on the Dis
cipline Given Prof.
Momerie,
Who Was Reduced to the
Ranks on Account of His
Writings.
People Must Eat Enough Be.
fore They Can Be Very
Religious.

| uOOk 1rOI. MOmcrle FURNISHED LIE
thought for Rev. w. S. Wallis sermon
yesterday morning. "The Affirmations
of an English Heretic' was the theme,
and the text I'VE also believe and there
fore speak"
The palpitations of the present time re-
| veal all the eager, restless struggle of
men for money; they reveal the cry of
men who are caught in the currents of
misfortune and are needing friendly
| hand; they reveal the work of men who
are demanding better condition of So
! cial life, and claiming that men must have
| enough TO eat before they can become
very religious; they are showing all the
shadows of the present, bullet us be
thankful-they are showing us the men
tai movements that place clearly before
! our vision the men who shall lead the
| coming age. Of one such | wish to
speak to-day. Prof. Momerie has just
| been reduced to the ranks" in Kings
| college. " are too far away to get the
| full force of this action, The details
are dry and tedious. Briefly, the pro-
| feSsor, acknowledged i'll cultured circles
| one Of the ablest, was refused the
| classes in theology, his book on "Inspir-
| ton" was openly condemned by his
| bishop and associates. and thus lie was
| shorn of all the influence he had exert
! ed over the students, both as teacher
and lay preacher, for he is now con-
| fined to instruction in formal logic.
The man and his work will make us a
sermon.
The first hardship that came to this
| man was the giving UP of things made
| dear by association. Association car
| ried him back to the great English
school, with its mighty games of foot
| ball, its long races through woods,
| across brooks and over meadows span
| gled with daisies and buttercups; its
| rlvalrles, fights, punishmentS and tri-
| umphs. Association carried him to the
| chapel, where, separated from his home,
the noble prayers of the liturgy, the
swelling anthems sung by vested choirs
| and the kindly word of the clergyman
! furnished consolation to the homeSick
| youth. Association called un the days
when he first determined to follow, at
| all hazards, the inner suggestions of
| conscience, and determined that where
he felt ''hiS honor grip" he would reSo-
| luteIy pause and go no farther-thereby
| giving his heart to God in the noblest
| sense of that term. Such was this man
when, in strength and buoyancy of
| youth, he left school and university to
take his place in the arena of active
life.
At middle age he stood the professor
OF logic in the Kings college. He pos
sessed splendid powers.
Mastery Is the Word
that would come to you when you saw
him in the layman'S pulpit, addressing
congregation of marked intelligence.
Mastery we admire both in its higher
and lower forms. Even the lion moving
cautiously with outstretched paw down
the sandy steep toward the ravine be-
low, where he means to engage his
enemy in battle, moves your admira-
ton. Mastery was seen in the chariot
eer of the old Roman circus who had
such command over his horses that
nearly all the muscles of his body as
sisted in his success. Mastery over an
audience L saw once III the Jupiter of
the American pulpit; Henry Ward
Beecher, as he stood, with his leonine
face framed with white hair which fell
to his shoulders, and reminded one as
he hurled his bolts of thunder in all di-
| rections, of the great admiral-to Dor
row MI. EveretPs misunderstanding
the deck of his ship, her guns shotted to
the muzZle, her flag flying from the MAIN
mast, herself and her master rulers of
the sea, But | think the highest mas
terry is found in the man of genius, who
is gifted scholar and master of the
worlds past movements, abreast the
current thought, and by his position
able, to an extent, at least, to forecast
the future.
The first discovery of Prof. Momerie
was the certain danger to the Christian
world, induced by its conservatism and
its refusal to keep step with the advance
of knowledge. He felt that the safety
Of thCI
| and not real. The distinction is very
apparent. When the ranchman follows
his herd around the point Of rocks,
coming from the mountain pasture, and
sees the daShing drove swing down
through fern and brake, across the
streamiet, where they pause to drink,
and then rush Oh with rapid stride, he
follows with a feeling of safety. But
the scream and bound of the mountain
lion StampedeS the herd, he is trampled
to death: the safety
Was Only Apparent.
Sir Samuel Baker and his friends are
apparently safe as they ride the ele-
plants across the plains, but the tiger
springs from the grass, the frightened
elephant attempts to escape, the tiger
climbs upon him and pulls the man
from his place, So institutions seem to
VIC odlC, NiOH udhSCl 10 luThlHE all
round, ready to spring like lion and
bring death at stroke. Safety only
comes by making an adjustment that
will fit the truth to the conditions of the
time in which we live.
Then came the changed feeling pro-
duced by the conviction that the world
is ruled by uniform laws; that all pray
ers of men to change physical condi-
tons will be a failure; and yet within
two weeks the preachers of Brooklyn
prayed for the miraculous cure OF man
who was choking to death from swallow
ing csrk-but the man died. He saw
at once that while miracles may happen
there is little power in the attempt to
build religion on the idea that won
ders were performed in its name.
Consequently he abandoned this at
tempt. He began active service at
time when the evolutionary theory was
at its inception, and when the study OF
comparative religion by Max Muller
and his associates was making deep in
roads on the minds of thinking people.
He became changed man IN studying
the Bible. 1t had been to him a book
of infallible truth. Its words were not
like other words. Its history was not
shrink from theordeal. He did not hes
itate to say that the God of the Old
Testament was represented as jealous,
malignant, ''a man of war; while the
God of the new Testament was all that
was good, gentle, kind. long-suffering.
He did not hesitate to say that the Bible
must be tried and sifted as any other
book, aud that in such trial and Sitting
we shall find chaff and wheat. OF the
modern church he said that there was
an
Almost Radical Difference
between its teaching and the teaching
of Christianity, The church is unduly