New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-28
THE PARSONS STUDY.
RrrS OF NEWS AND COMMENT.

BITS OF NEWS AND COMMENT.
IN an apprec,ative article on Phillips Brooks, IN
SThe independent Arcldcacon Farrar has TINS 70
say: $780, w.. =,
ct fs undoubtedly the case Professor Bryce OBJ
serves In his great work America, that the average
American clergyman is better off than the average
English clergyman. AnTrector who like Dr. Brooks
has won the attachment of his hearers Is sure TO be
hefequent recipient Of such generous acts OF kindness
as are exceedingly rare in England few years ago.
thinking that he looked little tired some members
of his parish together and at once begged MN 10
leave them for a year and to travel In Europe ana
India without once thinking of them; they offered 10
nav an his expenses for the year. and also 70 pay anu
provide for his substitute during his absence lhe
generous and noble offer was believe at once NC
clncd except far leave of absence was concerned
for DR.. Brooks has always been in comfortable cir
rumstances. and is still bachelor. toid MN 'na'
IN England a clergyman might be worn out WIN over
work and his face assume deathy pallor, ana that
yet in thousands OF parishes, 1t would not occur !"
those for whom he was spending and being spent 10
come forward with such spontaneous consderatencss'
'Oh' he replied, laughing; 1T was only because "e'
were tired of me- and wanted little change
Mr. Thomas G. sherman writes an article for " inc
Christian Union" TO prove that the dead mana ought "
have no power in the Church. In tins state IL Is Pos
sible, he says, for some one to endow d c'"o' o"N
set II running for all time, with the guarantee OF Ne"
York law that so long half dozen people attend
that church who adhere to the founders doctrine al
property shall for that doctrine even thoush
a thousand other Christians who attehu IL ues"o "
ad,tv ,ts teachings and nnetenths Of all surrounding
Christians agree with them.
The dead hand is a powerful factor in religions
coniroyersv Every such controversy turns vi
,be oucstion what the trainers OF certain
creed meant and what they wanted 10 n''o
believed. Mr.. Sherman opposes THIS ldea r''h iee
point of view. Contracts can only lie maze De'Weo
living persons. The dead cannot contract Win u'o'
successors nor can their children be bound by ther
aoeds An any such sense as to raise contract 0bSa
tion The present generation is under no moral oDiga
ton 10 use the wealth left by the last generation III c
precise mode which the fathers expected. bAphoi'
commands of Christ Himself universally unoer
stood TO have been limited by an uneXpresseo Nler
ence to the age and its circumstances and disooeu
once 10 them in their strict, natural Interpretation Is
taught at Princeton quite much as at Ancover or
yale.
The most hide bound conservative does not pretcnu
10 accept the his Church in the meaning OF us
trainers. How many Episcopal clergymen coud DC
found today who believe that the identical hcsh aiu III
ihe grave will be aised at the last day? Ana yet
that was the current belief when the Apostles Cfeea
was formulated. The Westminster dvines ana the
founders Of Andover believed that GOO always cnpc"
TO corsign the vast majority OF the hlinah i"'o
throughout eternity to literal not hsurauVe' N0 Vi
fire kept alive by His personal. perpetual super
,isioD They believed that lie did this for His own
glory and without respect to the merits or demer.S
NJ the victims what they believed they hohes'N
tried TO express in writings which are no" Tie suU!eo'
NJ heated controversy. The conservatives lnSiS' VI
nlenary belief in these writings, bit trey uoHiSciNO
don,t believe them thus, nor d. they get out oil INC
church They are doing in a small way exactly "'a'
.bo liberals are doing in a large way. conservative
PRESBYTERIAN who longer believes that the nth Vi
mankind will burn forever in literal, matera iaNe Vi
1re has no right to throw stones at LIBERAL LOT e Is
so far forth liberal himself
pishop Bovle Roman Catholic, Of New South Wales
racently visited this country to study 'he hoia"
catholic paIOchia school system Not lohs aso i'''S
catholic Journals printed paragraph decidrIns Ua'
ne thought highly of the American paroci"al soiooi'
md would copr them in New south wales lie Ho"
,rttes 70 The Freemans Journal of this CITY, say
w. ~ .ro ,,or,praDh is untrue "Whe.' he says
Won have 80 much of what may be termed inc so"s-
nlease, system it is impossible to produce eood re
suits in school work. uo. 49,
before any schools can be pronounced excellent or
even good maintain that the following conuuonS dio
necessary: - A., .ooobos,
(a) standard OF prohcenoS 'oi ''0
guidance. ., ,.,,o, Tho scboo,
tvoud he periodically examined by competent person
~(o An efficiency test for the teachers oeioio
undertaking school work. for AS is the schooiaS'er "
s,ne school and think that ssterhood or proue
hoard and the alimportant and sacred duty Of "to
,pp should never be intrusted TO them
at mist candidly confess that felt much oisap
,r,ed In the method and organization OF the Cathohc
SCHOOL system of the United states, as only III Ne"
yor, and one or two other dioceses did find what
deem essential to form good sabbatlschooi' anu
,,erever standards Of proficiency are IN use tleN WI"
t topnd invariably lower than that used in our Aus
'tralian schools"
Last Sunday quoted some fantastic speculations IN
regard TO the season OF the year N which the wOru
was created not surposins that any one would take
them al all seriously. But to my SURPRISE an es-
teemed correspondent rebuhes me for OVERCOMING inc
TACT that AT any given moment the earth all the
Lessons arc in oneraton No dear sir, did not over
,o This fart and only referred to the discussion TO
show what trivialities will sometimes engage the at
,ention of learned men,
"The Christian Inquirer" is a pretty orthodox paper
itself But il has the to administer word OF
rebuke 10 orthodox fanatics" whom it thus describes
They cannot give any for their faith nor an
swer arguments against the opinions they hold such
people believe every word in the English Bible to be
INSPIRED whether be in the King James or Canterbury
from the most distant before printing was In
vented making mistake. II follows that they
as thew find in some it orfcs them in their de
nominatonal views. We have confidence in the pro,
recognized scholarship. We do not believe them charge
able with criminal GOODNESS and man fearing modeia
ton" When such sound note Of alarm we Shall
tremble for the ark of God Thus far they seem
Than solid rocks when pillows
I'VE believe in the defence OF truth but il is not by
vociferously declaming against investigation that IT
be defended will faith be preserved by blind
ing ones eyes 10 all new light
! PLANING AND MOULDING MILLS BURNED.