The record-union., 1892-02-13

MIN, and he does not persecute, he is an
oath-breaker. Rome made no exception
IN the case of the Brooklyn Bishop. 1t
makes no exception in the case of any
other Bishop. OF course, we have not
seen the literal copy of the oath taken by
individual Bishops in America, but we
would like TO ask any Catholic who
knows, editor or priest, if the clause,
Heretlcos, schismaticos, et rebelles
Domino nostro vel successoribus proedic
LIS, pro posse, perequar ct timpugnabo,' is
not IN the oath of every Bishop of the
Roman church in our land /? Being writ
ten IN Latin does not make the persecut-
ing oath any less hard, cruel, unpatriotic,
or unchristian than if written in English,
which everybody that runs may read.
The easy-going Protestant may say that
thls oath does not mean anything, that it
Is an obsolete term belonging to the dark
ages. But no priest will say that. Leo
AllI. would not admit that. The oath
stands to-day for as much as it did in the
days OF Hlldebrand, wherever the person
taking it has the power to carry it out; as
rather Hecker once said, the present
state of religious liberty was TO continue
until Rome had power to change it,"
Referring to the movement in Paris to
secure the observance Of Sunday as day
A~A'S I
says: Not many months will elapse
before one of our most important cities
Will have the opportunity of initiating the
very meritorious effort that is being
made in Paris. The Worlds Fair will be
opened in Chicago and the authorities in
that city viii be called upon to determine
whether or not the public shall be ad-
mltted to various departments of the fair
upon the day of rest. 1t seems to us that
no department should be open which is
devoted to the display of merchandise, or
of those marketable commodities in
cluded in the practice of trade or busi-
ness. The line to be drawn is very nice,
and the definition, that should include
everything that is meant and nothing
that Is not meant, may be so difficult as
to be next to impossible; but perhaps the
majority of those who like 10 see the
Lords day honored will agree shat, while
the Art Department at the Chicago Fair
might with propriety be thrown open on
Sundays, as a recreation that would be
restf1B as well as educational, those de-
partments which smack OF traffic and ex-
hale the. atmosphere of mere barter and
sale wdAld be better closed upon the
Lords day. Some of our Western and
southern cities have entirely forgotten
the idea of rest upon the first day of the
week. Now that Paris is beginning to
remember it we hope that Chicago will
On the subject of pastoral calls, the
San Francisco Occident (Pres.) relieves
itself as follows: "Good calls by a pastor
skilled in the art are great boon. But
calls made by an ungirt pastor, slipshod,
ungoverned of tongue or temper, weak of
Will or faint in piety, wanting in tact or
sympathy, are about as comforting and
as useful as the visitation of Pharaoh's
frogs and lice were-to the Egyptians.
The pastor who never knows when to CO.
or who leaves people feeling as if they
had been sandpapered, or who becomes a
nose OF wax for dirty hands to twist, may
report six hundred pastoral calls last
year-and yet find his resignation ac-
ceptable. The minister of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ whose piety hangs on one
suspender or whose brain is everlast-
lngly fumbling at its buttons (as Dr.
Weir Mitchell would say, or whose So
clal gumption is constantly losing its
shoe in the mud, or whose tongue in dia-
logue is prone to blurt things out butt
end foremost, would do well either to
avoid pastoral calls or to put himself un-
der rigorous training for the important
task. There are some things besides
boards for folks to tarry in Jericho for
The business of pastoral calling is both a
science and an art. If (as should be the
case with most pastors) the art is to be
literally and assiduously practiced, then
by all that is holy and right it should be
laboriously and studiously mastered"
Perhaps the most satisfactory aspect
of the whole Woman'S college move
ment," says the New York Examiner
(Bapt.), ''is that already it has ceased to
be novel or queer We are finding out
that the girls want to go to college for
precisely the same reasons that bows Go.
1t isn't that thew aSpire TO all sorts of
new careers, or feel themselves set apart
for some special and conspicuous mission.
What leads them in such numbers to
seek the higher education, both at the
colleges for women and at co-educationaI
institutions, is the honest and simple
purpose to fit themselves better for the
ordinary demands and duties of
woman's life. There is no danger that the
woman's college will revolutionize our
national character. There is good reason
to hope that it will strengthen and exalt
it,"