The record-union., 1891-04-05
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
Expressions from the Various
Religious Newspapers.
Expressed in the Sectarian Press
Ministers and Laymen.

The Central Christian AdUocote (Meth.)
says of the New Orleans massacre:
There is much TO plead in mitigation of
the outbreak of public sentiment which
advises such a proceeding. We stand by
our former declarations on this subject
1t is the mereSt folly to talk about the
sacredness of law when the courts and
juries are used as instruments TO protect
the guilty. There is no mob law of the
kind that usurped authority in New Or
leans where justice can be had in the
courts. The only question under the cir
cumstances is whether the proceeding
should stop where it is"
The Standard (Bapt) says: ''The tele-
graphic reports of the doings of that law
less mob in New Orleans appear to justify
its awful deeds by dwelling upon such
facts as that the great crowds of people
came together in broad daylight, marched
to the jail in good order, and that the
shooting and hanging Of thirteen defense
less Italians, several of whom stood ac-
quilted of crime by an American jury,
and several of whom We're still citizens of
their native land, was instigated, advo-
Gated and carried out by prominent
bankers, citizens and professional men
in New Orleans Then so much the
worse for New Orleans and its citizens.
We have no sympathy, 1T is needless to
say, with anything which in the slightest
looks towards the defeat of the ends of
justice. We cannot, however, see much
difference between numbering one man
by stealth and shooting down accused
prisoners in cold blood while the fact
that $4,000 people justified the last deeds
of violence by no means clears their
skirts of crime in the eyes of right
minded men. One wrong is not righted
by thirteen additional crimes. We trust
1Uh hoIi in lou
and justice will not hesitate to speak out
against this outrage upon good govern
ment, good fellowship and the laws of
men and God"
The Observer (Pres.) says: ''The whole
country is disgraced by the outrage per-
petrated in New Orleans on Saturday last,
Was all the machinery of law SO entirely
destroyed, and was all hope of justice so
entirely dead, that recourse must be had
TO the methods of the widest frontier
settlement or Western mining camp? If
so, the city in which law has been so bur-
lesqued must be in bad way. All the
civilized nations Of the earth will keep
their eyes upon us to see how far we
manifest self-control and are prepared to
do justice to foreigners within our bor-
ders. We must show them that law and
order do prevail, and that Judge Lynch
is not a recognized institution. At the
same time, the disgrace begins with the
corruption that brings the administra-
ton OF law into such contempt that mob
law is tolerated and commended"
The Christian I1,teIIigencer (Refd) says:
''It reveals a condition of society and
municipal government most lamentable,
and which cannot be too severely con-
demned. The whole course of the city
and State authorities makes them partici-
pants in the crime, since it does not ap-
pear that a single effort was made, despite
full notice of the plot, to arrest or hinder
its execution. 1t seems to remand one of
our leading cities back to a condition of
1awlessness such as could be expected
alone on the outskirts of civilization. 1t
is to be hoped that this outburst of viol-
ence may so arouse the law-respecting
citizens of New Orleans and Louisiana
that both the crimes whose liberation
have occasioned this outbreak and this
further subversion of law in the name of
justice, may be put down with a stern
hand, and American civilization be freed
from menacing reproach."
The Freemlan'S Journal OR. Co. says:
passion and fury have possession of the
hearts of men. Gods law is outraged on
every side. The Passion of Christ, whose
wounds flow afresh and whose Sacred
Heart bleeds anew at the wickedness and
folly of His creatures-of those whom He
created children of one family and one
common inheritance-is here, but the
hope of salvation is neglected, and the
lesson of the Sacrifice is forgotten O,
the pity of it! We turn from the contem-
plation of the New Orleans tragedy with
sorrow, and in our inmost souls pray
through Mary, as our mediator before the
heavenly throne, that God may show
mercy to this world of ours, and by some
great exercise of His will end such scenes
and from the madness and passions of
human nature bring men back to the full
realization of the meaning of life here be-
low, and of the awful character of that
passion and sacrifice on Calvary, through
which alone is the way to the life be-
yond.'
The Rev. Dr. Robert A. Holland pre-
sents the following Sunday morning pho
tograph in the LiUing Church. 1.-THE head
of the house looks up over his spectacles
lie sits IN an easy chair reading news
paper, published in three volumes; there
are two other newspapers, each three
volumed in the hands of other membe
of the family, for this is newspaper day,
and a rare treat has been provided-a
feast of fat things. Here is the bill of
fare of one of them, leaving out the liter
ary soup, and the political olives, and the
plain commercial loaf and the few relig-
ious items that take the place of salted
almonds: Base Ball. two and half col
umns; Cycling one column and third
Hand Ball, Gun Club, Pool Tournament
and Pistol Practice, one column; Race
Track Notes, one column; five columns of
"a Romance of Two Brothers. three col
umns of The Witch of Sprague, Fan
tastic Tale;' three columns of Rudyard
Ripling's insolence about America: two
columns of Bill Nye; two columns of Fun
at Glance; column and half of Cor
rect Leads in Whist; column on Beef a
la Mode; three columns on the Shrine of
Thespis; three on Theater Entertain
ments Provided for the Lenten Weeks:
two on What Fashions Devoteeso VIII
Buy for Easter Sunday two on Ienten
Amusements,' or Forms of Feasting for
the Days of Fasting, Il give the names
according TO the bill of fare), besides such
entremets as these: The Ring, Sullivan
not Looking for Future Honors;' a Boy
Sixteen -year-old Girl Missing Fell
from the Elevator Robbed by Colored
Woman 'Convicts Armed Has Gibson
Fled?' Peculiar Arrest of Richard John
son, Drunken Negro Negro Boys
Find A very Peculiar Stabbing,' sly
Elopers;' The Cowles Divorce Case a
Young Lady Burned to a Crisp Torn
on the Track Mammoth Mine (Explo-
SION Verdict Two Freight Trains Col
Gde,' a Brothers. Fatal Prank 'Spon-
faneous Combustion,' Found Dead in a
Shute,' Dying of Dog Bite Smallpox
IN Illinois, a Farmers Hand Lost n
Pair of Bad Bell-Boys,' a Counterfeiter
Captured a Society Leader in Trouble.' ;
Suspected of Arson,' a Wounded Burg-
lar Bagged, Killed in Trivial Quarrel ,
Betrayed by His Mistress obscene
Publications. He Terms il Larceny etc,
etc, etc. All which is to take the place of
the Epistle and Gospel for the day."
The Interior Pres.) prints in full
Professor Briggs inaugural address, ac-