The record-union., 1891-03-29

| VI WIZ are likely W lOIoN III
| woman's train, if she be made eligible to
membership i'll the General Conference,
it has minutely described, and it is still
discussing these probable consequences
Last week it expressed the opinion that
such step would be AN act of folly I'M
equaled in the history of any Protestant
Communion and the day it is taken the
disintegration of the Methodist Episcopal
Church would begin.' What an evil
creature woman must be, and what
power she must have! If she is not kept
out of the General Conference, the church
ruling body, and she will break the
church to pieces. She will snap its bonds
of unity in spite of all its godly males can
do to keep them intact. If this fear be
well founded, it would seem to be unwise
to tolerate her at all in the church. Put
her out! Ii she is capable of accomplish
ing such Satanic results in the General
Conference, she must be all-powerful for
mischief in the Quarterly Conference, the
Sunday-School, the prayer-meeting, the
congregation. Put her out! Let her
have church by herself. This is the
reductiO ad GbSatYdam from the A AdUocate's
aTgunentatns adpersus feminane. But it
seems to us that in the following the Id
Uocate sinks to an aTgitnae1atatm Gd IN
fdDtidne
"'Whatever the consequences, whatever
reaction may take place in the joint
movement to bring women into church
or State politics, this once done will re-
main. Experiments in legislation as re-
spects suffrage always modify the COM
munity and make place for themselves,
as is the case with laws relating to citi-
zenship or vested interest. Thus legal
lzlng slavery made necessary its recog-
milton in the Constitution, and raised up
an immense mass of interests and their
representatives to be protected by law.
Thus licensing saloons makes the organ
lied political power of rum. So that the
movement, once established, ETC., etc.
slavery, the saloon, woman! These
are pdft pdsSu the three fontes ct o7lgines
nadtOTItne.f"
The same journal remarks: "Outside of
the purely religious view it is interesting
to reflect that just now the most conspicu-
Gus work in the way of religious agitation
in this city is being done by three Epis-
copal churches, and two of them churches
which have sometimes been called fash
lonable churches. And it seems as
though tendency was growing in the
church to do in its own way that work of
kindling religious interest which it once
was not conspicuous for performing, but
whi h some of the other evangelical sects
used to carry on in New York City with
glorious results"
The He6,'eao STANDARD says: "Men may
talk in raptures of youth, beauty, wit
and sprightliness, but after few years of
union not one of them is to be compared
to good family management, which is
seen at every meal and felt every hour in
the husbands purse. Every wife ought
to be we'll informed how much her hus-
bands revenue amounts to, and be so
good computer as to keep within it that
part of the management which falls to
her share.
There is vast difference between be-
ing parSimonious and economical A
sound economy is a sound understand
ing brought into action. 1t is calculation
realized it is the doctrine of proportion
reduced to practice; it is toreseeing con-
tlngencies and being prepared for them.
a return to the good old days when econ
omy and charity were the guiding stars
in Jewish households, would bring peace
to the mind of many husband and save
nm from many financial headache"
Church Work (P. E.) says: SIN some
points, and doubtless freshness and cour-
age are two, the third century was supe-
rior to the nineteenth; in others, again,
the experience of the church is pro
founder, precisely because longer, than it
was in the day Of Origen. Now some of
the writers of Lux MundP go back to
Origen, not only for their criticism, which
is one thing, but for their analysis of the
Christian life, which is quite another. In
this latter respect they appear to repre-
sent view, characteristic of certain
ancient fathers that the really basic fact
of the gospel is not really the CrucifXion
but the Incarnation. But those fathers,
1t should be added, regarded the import
ance OF these two great mysteries as
varying with the position of the hearer.
For the unconverted the cardinal fact was
Redemption, for the believer it was the
Incarnation taken in connection with the
Ascension. Now the Keble Eleven ap-
pear to neglect this distinction, and it
may accordingly be said of them that they
preach only to good people. Further, it
may be thought that this mode OF appre-
hension leads to positive undertaking
of the AtoGement. 1t is well-known
what Mr.. Greg and hard common-sense
have to say about this doctrine. 70
people of this kind it is simply an in
genious device for getting let off, But
to anyone who reflects that an evil-doer
who amends his life is, as matter of fact
let off, it does not seem desirable to re-
model doctrine that makes this fact
conceivable merely to satisfy the names
of Mr.. Greg"
The Nashville Christian AdvocGte
Meth.l says: ''The pulpit buffoon is in
tolerable. Any man who would deIib-
erately perpetrate joke in the pulpit for
its own sake is hopelessly irreverent. On
the other hand, laughter is as innocent
proach their themes from this side. 1t is
valuable and at the same time a dan
gerous gift. Laughter may open the
human heart as deep as tears. Into the
opening the sagacious preacher may drop
seed of truth that can never be thown
out. 1t will germinate and fructify-in
some cases bringing forth the hundred
fold harvest. A preacher with great,
generous, humorous nature can thus dis
arm opposition, and accomplish results
where a polemical or didactic preacher
would utterly fail. Let him use his Gift
without abusing it. When the humor
comes bubbling up to the surface of a
forth from the bosom of the earth, let it
come. 1t can do no harm.''
The Sacred Heart ReUiet0 (R C.) saws:
1.-The Rev. NJ. J. Savage thinks that he
should not be criticised or made fun of
because he made q catechism, since every
one and any one has right to make one,
if he wishes. Very true, provided that it
is labeled and understood to be simply a
statement of what the maker-Mr Saw
age, for instance-believes for himself.
He may even recommend 1t to others.
But catechism is more than that. 1t isa
statement of beliefs, of truths, intended
to be taught to children. Mr.. Savage. bv
his own principles, has no right to teach
his beliefs to children as truths, to be
taken on authority. People for whom
truth is constantly shifting, changing,
superseding or contradicting to-day the
truth of yesterday-wlth whom nothing
Is absolute or fixed,such people may adj
wise and confer with others, may publish
their own opinions, but they cannot lor-
1ca1ly make catechiSms for positive teach
ing. The proper way for them is to con-
duct their Sunday-schools as in the s,Ih-
urban town where tho little Unitarian