The record-union., 1892-07-16
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
Expressions From the Various Re-
ligiOus Newspapers.
The Religious Thought of the Day as
Expressed In the Sectarian Press
Some Matters of Interest to Both
Ministers and Laymen.

Speaking of the training of candidates
for holy orders, the L1U1ag Clt1tICh u. E.)
of Chicago says: in the American
church knowledge Of Hebrew mas been
made lon paper a requisite for holy or
ders, and, accordingly, in some OF our
schools large amount of time and labor
is devoted TO the acquisition OF this Ian
guage. No matter what the previous ed
ucation of the student has been, no mat
ter if his knowledge OF Latin and Greek
is not more than the minimum needed
to stumble through the Greek Testa-
ment in slipshod fashion, with frequent
resort to the English version, or TO dig
out Latin foot-note with the aid OF the
lexicon, instead of devoting himself to
the attainment Of the better knowledge
of those languages and fitting himself 10
grasp the finer points of New Testament
eXegesis, he must spend at least half his
time, for perhaps two years, III the study
of another difficult tongue. But all this
has not resulted in any appreciable in
crease in the number OF Hebrew schol-
ars among us. This could not fail
10 attract attention. And how then
is it proposed to remedy this diff
Guilty? Why, by enacting new canonS
making it more difficult, If not impossi-
bic for literates, or persons who have not
had college training, to obtain dis
pensation. This seems to us good illus
Cration Of the American faith in legisla-
ton, as legislation to cure evils or rem
edy defects. 1t is an eminent instance of
how not to do it,"
''Some of our Presbyterian friends,
anxious to tone down election in the
creed and to obliterate preterition, are be-
coming somewhat unwise in their talk,
and may hnd themselves in little while
dangerously near Universalism,'' re-
marks the New York Christian I1tteUGge1l-
Ger (fef.). They are saying that a father
who would pass by his child, in danger Of
ruin, and make no attempt to save him,
would be a monster of cruelty and
that God who can do so with His Great
ures is no better and is inconceivable.
That, in the hTst place, oyerthrows the
fact that some persons are not chosen
and called That is q fact. Some find it
plainly declared in the Scriptures,
and nobody can deny that it is a
fact. IN the next place, when one
begins to indulge in the monster of
cruelty sort Of talk, he viii soon find
that he will be compelled to announce
definitely Just how much God is bound
To do TO save every sort of man, and viii
find extreme difficulty in proving that
lie is bound TO do anything short of all
he can. If He must by moral necessity
do all that He can, then every body will
be saved. The conclusion is inevitable
1t is best to leave these matters
alone, and in the creed 20 confine our
selves TO the language of Scripture. But
IN ordinary speech and writing it is best
to contine ourselves TO the declaration:
lie that believeth in the Lord Jesus
Christ shall be saved; he that believeth
not will be condemned"
The Central Christian AdUocate Meth J
st. Louis says that the argument from
Christian experience is the sufficient and
final refutatiOn OF every objection against
tho claims n fhriGfin,,Styr ;,
great battle was over the reasonableness
and probability Of miracles, and men Of
the most subtitle minds, like Hume and
others, taxed their powers to the utmost
10 prove that miracles are impossible.
But their reasoning comes TO naught in
the presence OF the Gaily re-enacted mira
Gle Of Christian experience. Just now
the so-calIed higher critics are assaiiing
The divine origin and inspiration OF the
Scriptures, bet they never can succeed in
sinking the faith Of men, who know that
they are saved by the power Of Christ, in
the record OF His birth, life, doctrines.
death and resurrection. At whatever
point the enemy attacks the citadel Of
1alth he IS met by the unauswerable argu-
nent from Christian experience. He
never can succeed in banishing Chris
Jianity from the world, unless he makes
ii impossible for penitent seekers for di.
vine forgiveness and a new heart 10 lind
Christ able to save to the uttermost all
who come to God by Him.
mo one thing more clearly separates
the educational system OF to-day from
that of quarter of century ago" says
the New York EU0ngetiSt (Pres. }, ''than
the place which women's colleges are
now taking. The rolls OF graduates al
ready contain some brilliant names. and
this is surely only the beginning. a few
days since a woman received the degree
OF Doctor of Philosophy, we'll earned by
the translation of the New Testament
from the original Greek into one of our
Indian languages. A few weeks ago
recent graduate of one of the women's
colleges was received as n fellow of Yale
University, the first of her sex, but as
surediy not the last. The vexed question
of co-education has certainly not been
settled, and perhaps never viii be as
matter of argument, bat it is assuredly
IN talr way OF settlement by the stern
logic Of facts. It is the women's colleges