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sacrificial worship has been lost blythe
numerous Protestant sccts.n


numerous Protestant sccts.''
The Je,eish Voice says: .'It is Our abid-
ing conviction that with the Sinaic Sab
bath Judaism stands and falls, no matter
what fatlonallStS, agnoStlcS, tine-Serye,,a
and even honest radicals may gainsav.
You viii say: Can it be a transgression
if go to hear the Word of God on SIM
day?' No, bat you encourage thereby
the Sunday morning service and lecture
winch, III the nllost OF Judaism and in
our time most particularly, cannot stand
without disastrous results 10 the contin-
ued validity of our Sabbath. If your
faith is not worth the Inconvenience
which the attendance at a lecture and
service on the sacred Sabbath eve woul8
caUSe you, then it is not worth even the
attendance at a lecture III temple next
to your own house.
''There are those who have embraced
the cause of the Sunday = who mean
therbey to benefit the cause of our holy
faith-we often feel sorry to be forced to
write and speak against them, us we dis
like to hurt their feelings; still we would
be olerelict in our most solemn duty if
we were TO keep silent and thus silently
acquiesce in movement which we know
so strong is this our conviction-has
sure tendency towards the ultimate de-
struction of that which must be to the
Israelite dearer than life."
The Chaerchmdn says: 1.-THE discipline
of Lent is no unwonted exercise to the
faithful churchman, for the rule Of Lent
extends throughout the year, to all Fri
days except Christmas Day; the Ember
Days, at the four seasons; the Rogation
Days, and by ancient custom and general
consent to the half-Lent of Advent,
though this last is not prescribed in this
church. All told, and emitting duplica-
tons, more than one hundred days in the
a ah rpt.
requires such measure of abstinence as
is moro especially suited to the extra
ordinary acts and exercises of devotion;
with Ash Wednesday and Good Friday
as absolute fasts. As for the frequent
services, the church provides an order
for morning and evening prayer daily
throughout the yeaT, and makes an adj
dition to that order in Lent. IF there be
anything spasmodic, therefore, in tho
piety of the forty days, as is sometimes
alleged by outside observers, it is not IL
the cilurch's system, but in her chiidren's
practice. If the abstinence Of forty days,
broken weekly by the Sunday feast, be
found severe by any person in ordinary
health, it is probably because that person
has neglected his weekly practice on FRI
days. The constantly recurring bodily
discipline, one day in seven, is as great a
moral force as the due observance of the
Lords Day is confessed to be. But since
there must be q beginning to every duty,
there is no time so favorable for forming
the habit OF penitential exercise, as the
Lenten season, which even the world re-
spectS and honorS, in form if not in heart.
AT least the world accepts Lent as an ex-
cuse from its demands in social life, and
when churchmen live up to their stand
ards, it will not be hard to enforce the
same respect for Fridays and other days
OF abstinence"
The Christian Leader (Univ.) says:
Professor Briggs is surely New Pres
byterian. What would Albert Barnes
of the new school himself-have said at
such an utterance as this: THE bugbear
CT Judgment Immediately after death
and OF q magical transformation in the
dying hour should be baniShed from the
world, and we should look with hope and
joy for the continuance Of the process of
grace and the wonders OF redemption i'll
the company of the blessed to which we
are all hastening?' Did the elder Baliou
ever dream that such words would come
from the chair of a Presbyterian theo-
logical seminary?"
The WdtchDsan (Bapt.) says of the pas
sage above quoted that ''it must come in
the most direct and violent conflict with
the confession of faith to which DR.. Briggs
had just repeated the formal subscrip-
ton of seventeen years ago. We confess
ourselves at an utter loss to comprehend
the meaning of what is herein set forth, if
it be not much more than an open espou-
sal of the pOSt-mOrtem probation theory,
about which the air has been so full dur
ing these later years. Ii the new Robin
son Professor OF Biblical Theology in tho
Union Seminary Is to be accepted as an
accredited and sound theological teachc&
even as he has been formally installed
then the new peculiar position of An-
dover, as the center of novel inculcation,
can no longer remain peculiar or dis
tnctive."
The Christian Union says: "The Bible
itself everywhere appeals to mans rea-
son, and demands of him nothing which
is unreasonable. The nature OF religion
Paul declares TO be the development of
the perfect manhood, and it would be a
curious way to develop perfect manhood
to begin by dethfoning reason, which is
the light OF the soul. 1t is equally certain
that the Bible eXhorts the church, which
both reason on the one hand and Protes-
tantiSm on the other have too often dis
honored. The Old Testament church cX-
listed before the Old Testament, the New
Testament church existed before the New
Testament, and both Testaments grew
out of and are the expressions of the life
of the two churches-two, we call them,
though they are in reality one. Those
Caivinists swho object to Dr. Briggs
doctrine that the church is q concurrent
testimony to the truth with the Bible,
must settle their dispute first with st.
Paul, in his declaration that the church is
the pillar and groundwork of the truth,
and secondly, with John Calvin, whose
commentary on l. Timothy ill.,, Is, we
recommend to the attentive considera-
ton of DIR. Briggs critics. When they
have finished their study of Calvin we
recommend them to the further study of
Luther, who says of preaching that it
rises above the Bible. After that they
might consider the meaning of the text
in Revelation, The Spirit and the Bride
say, Come'-a concurrent invitation from
the spirit in the individual prophet and
the spirit in the organized church,
The king OF the gypsies in England re-
i0inas in tln lnninnn Of Gnnlcrn Smith