The record-union., 1892-12-03

one change in ten is necessity that one
party or the other could not prevent. To
charge majority Of the changes on
Providence would be to charge Provi-
dence with imbecility."
"Our orthodox critics say we are dying
out" exclaims the CH1qStioa Register
q nit of Boston. 1--WE know we are
not, II sixty new churches in two years
attest the fact of growth and prosperity.
StlI, we are afflicted by the misrepre-
sentatlon. We must try TO satisfy the
world we are not dead Is not this q
false position? Does it not indicate sa
needless nervousness, q thin-skiuued
susceptibility OF outside criticism that
ought not to exist? The success Of Luth-
er protest was due largely TO the fact
that 1t was so sturdy, so self-sustained
ana conhuent. He was alone against the
world; and when people laughed at the
puny strength of one soul confronting
the lmpregnable fortress of PapaCy, he
Numbered back, My God is strong
fortress II opponents continually cry
out, on are ghost, you have no red
blood III your veins, why should slmu-
Iacrum offend the light OF day2' you cam
not convince them you are alive by words.
! on must live down the foolish beliet.
The moment liberal Christians cease to
~ ~ AlCetA AlAk- b44tllloGAN Us CetlANNt
dead, that moment the hateful impula-
ton will cease to be hurled at US, We
can only prove ourselves alive by doing
living things, by thinking living
thoughts; and laments over the miscOn-
ceptions and prevarications OF q certain
order OF orthodox critics arc not OF these.
II we are not very much alive, veritable
thorn in the side OF the old stubborn Or
thodoXy, those who decry us would not
take the trouble to Write a needless epi-
taph. 1t is because they wish us dead
tnat they proclaim us so. Because they
fear the living power that is within us,
they cry out that we are moribund."
THE Roman Catholics" says the New
J ork CbUrchHt0H (P. E., ''are at present
the only religious body of serious numer-
lcal importance who desire TO secure
public money for their schools. The re-
Iiglous education of the Roman Catholics,
both III schools and churches and every
where else, has for centuries been given
largely by pictures and images and scenic
representations OF all kinds. A school
room furnished with crucifixes, pictures
OF the stations OF the cross, pictures and
images OF the Virgin and Child, would be
an effective instructor in the Roman
Catholic faith, if not word Were
spoken about their meaning. The cos
tune OF priests, brothers, Sisters Of
ma ny anu JllG IKE, " NOulQ nave Il pre-
cisely similar effect. Not only is this
kind OF instruction which the State does
not want, but it is kind which the State
IS bound steadily to refuse to take. 1t
would be impossible to subsidiZe Roman
Catholic schools without subsidizing,
when required, the schools OF Seventh
Day Baptists or Jews or Mohammedans
The whole ground would he speedily oc-
cupied by subsidized schools, and there
would be always a minority OF American
citizens who would be virtually excluded
from all public education because they
could not get their reading and writing
and arithmetic without having forced
upon them religious dogmas which they
dlsbelieve and despise. 1t is undeniably
and contessedly for the very purpose Of
enforcing those dogmas that a religious
body wants to have the school in its own
hands, and to get public money for its
support. If the State is to educate its
children at all, it must vigorously exclude
from the curriculum every form of re-
hgious dogma. Such an education may
be Imperfect; nobody says that it is not.
But il Is all that the State can honestly
provide out Of public funds collected from
people of all religions or of none"
THERE would be no indigestion in the
world if Angostura Bitters We're used bv
all. DR.. J. G.. b. Siegert e Sons. manu-
ft...+ Il.