The record-union., 1892-03-19

ilOt 1tieSSagS OF peace ana comfort, II 9t
some truth that will brace their wills for
within and without, but an elaborate
essay on Science and Genesis or The
recent assaults on the Bible, or Modern
Pantheism and Christian Theology pre-
faced by some Scripture text 10 give
the thing an outward show Of being
sermon"
Speaking of the highest criticism, the
LlUing Church Up. e. of Chicago says:
Startling as are some of the results of
the laborS Of this school, they are by no
means new. Professors and students in
all our theological seminares for the past
half century have been alive TO all the
methods these critics have employed in
their handling of the Word of God. They
are familiar with the processes of pulling
the various books into fragments, the
theories OF reductions, books of origin,
Jehovistic and Elohistic controversies
alleged, the interpretations, the late au-
thorship of certain books, the arbitrary
enendations Of the text, ETC., which the
German commentators spun out of their
inner consciousness years ago. They put
forth their theories, one alter another,
each one IN turn being mangled and de-
nounced by the others, and one by one
they fell into the dust heap Of innocuous
desuetude, when it was found they
would not work and were mutually con-
Trajectory"
''It is PITY says the Chicago I7,te-
Ti0r (Pres.), THAT some of our liberal
friends who have found themselves COM
petent to reconstruct the universe seem
TO have confessed failure in a realm much
narrower. Business men have come gen.
orally TO discard all offers of personal
bonds and to insist upon the bonds fur
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the very moment when the new theology
hes eliminated justice from the divine
government and substituted infinite for
giveness,' the world has come TO discard
form Of security under which the en-
bezzler might compound his guilt, and
has substituted one which will pursue
him to the end OF the world with the
sword of an implacable justice A guar
anty company never torgives, and is
clients know this. In consequence il has
few defalcations to punish. Unbounded
compassion may be a charming theory as
applied to the divine government Of the
universe, but it is a dismal failure as ap-
piled to business between man and man.
The market and the exchange have fallen
back upon the very principle the church
is asked to reject--a justice Which Will by
no means clear the guilty"
On the subject of the saloon the New
York Observer (Presb.) remarks: The
man who is so welded to his party that
he will follow wherever it leads. or the
party that IS so welded to its man that it
will follow wherever he leads, is no1
worthy the name OF patriot. The saloon
is quite safe in the hands of such men.
1t was said, long ago, that such party
man tries to cultivate two characters, one
for private use, the other for public use
one personal the other political. AS a
ma wa Ol hp mo fn hn frrlfl H.
ful, honest and moral but as politician
he is deceltful, cunning and unscrupu-
lous-anything for party. AS man he
abhorS the Shiny demagogue; as politi-
clan he employs him as a scavenger. AS
man he adoreS virtue; as politician he
rewards vice. AS man he hates the sa-
loon and will not cross it's Threshold; as a
politician he courts the favor of the sa-
loon and cheerfully pays his money for
its influence. AS citizen he is an apos-
tie Of temperance; as politician he puts
his shoulder under the men who deluge
their track with whisky, marchinga crew
OF Drawing patriots, pugnaclouSly drunk,
to exercise the freeman's noblest fran
chise-the vote. This is true picture of
the party man upon whose support the
saloon can always count, and it is thou
sand pities that such party men are far
too numerous. From such party men
and from all such politicians tbs the duty
OF all Christians and of all good citizens
TO pray to God to deliver US, and then
it is their bounden duty to vote as they
pray. The saloon has become such a
power in politics that it behooves all good
citizens, irrespective of their affiliations,
to band themselves against it. But to
pray that the power of the saloon may be
checked and then vote for those who are
sure to give it a free rein is species of
hypocrisy and of Pharisaism which has
been far too common, and which has been
by no means confined to one OF the great
political parties"
The New York Christian Union thinks
that the crusade of the polemical Protest
ants in this country against the Roman
Catholic Church is saved from being
crime only by being folly. 1t says fur
ther: lit is, however, as political organ
ization that the polemical Protestant at
tacks the Roman Catholic Church. He
figures out that immigration and the nat
ural increase of population will, in an
other century, hand this country over to
Roman Catholic control. He even imag-
ines the Pope transferring his residence
from Rome to Baltimore or st. Louis.
He warns us of the undying hostility of
the hierarchy to the public school and to
free institutions. He Is always able to
cite respectable Roman Catholic authori-
ties in defense Of religious persecution,
and his lurid Imagination pictures the
establishment Of the Spanish InquSi-
ton and the auto-da-te on our soil, or
re-enactment Of a Netherlands campaign
or Day Of st. Bartholomew History
does not justify these fears. The religi-
Gus prosecutions of the Middle Ages be-
longed far more TO an epoch than to
church-an epoch which trusted to the
deterrent rather than to the remedial ele-
ments in punishment, and did not distin-
guish between crime and intellectual
error. The wise man will remember tina
others as we'll as himself are living in the
last decade of the nineteenth century, and
will adjust himself and his actions ac-
cordingly. The real dangers which
threaten American society are not from
imperialism, in either Church or State.
They are from anarchy; from contempt of
authority and impatience at control; from
demagogues f1attering democracy, en-
throning its passions and dethroning its
conscience; from greed and appetite ram
pant and uncontrolled; from the tens of
thousands OF saloons, not from the
churcheS-of any denomination. The
polemical Protestant inveighs against the
control exercised by the priesthood. Has
he ever considered what would happen
to this country, especially in our great
cities, were there no such control?"
If well could be dug to the depth of
forty-siX miles, the density of the air at
the bottom would be as great as that of
quick By the same law a cubic
inch of air taken 1000 miles above the
earth's surface would expand sufficiently
to fill a sphere 1000, 100000 miles in di-
ameter.
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