The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-03-05

Some other part of the nature aside from,
more easily reached, bearing more pleas
ant front than an awakened conscience,
draws the arrow from this polished culver.
The preacher has made too much OF the
sermon, the sermon has made too much
OF the preacher; the nearer has made too
much of both preacher and sermon Tor
either the Holy Ghost or conscience to
make much Of either sermon or
preacher
The C55iStian Register (Unit.) Of Bos-
ton is well pleased with the religious out
look. 1t says: ut would be impossible
now TO count the number of Unitarian
missionaries. They are too numerous to
be specified. They are not accredited by
the American Unitarian Association, the
Western Conference or any other body.
They are self-elected. Some of them are
in the Presbyterian fold and are engaged
IN revising its creeds. This is large
task and will take some time. Some of
them are in the Episcopal fold and use
prayer-books and wear gowns. Some OF
them are Baptists, and are baptiZing their
congregations with fire. Some of them
are Methodists and have a good deal of
freedom of the will. They do not use
Unitarian tracts or literature. They
write their own sermons and preach
them. Their pulpit productions might
be bound up with the sermons of Chan
ming or Parker. There would be diff
ference in style, but not much in senti-
ment. These missionaries give the Uni
tartan Church no trouble about their
work. They require no salaries and no
direction from Unitarian organizations;
1t is the bodies TO which they are accred-
tied that is troubled with them. Some of
these churches do not know whether to
be glad or to be sorry over them, to try
&c 70 ni
hghts; but, on the whole, most of them
are proud of these missionaries and mean
to stand by Them"
On the subject of the latest Freedom
| OF Worship" bill, the New York Observer
tPres.) exclaims: "Now what does this
mean Why this annual cry for free
| dom of worship? From whom does this
| cry come? 1t certainly does not come
from those who are oppressed by the
state in the matter of religion. 1t does
not come from those who are anxious that
all Christian sects and denominations
| and churches in the State should stand
on an equal footing before the law. Nor
does II come from those who desire that,
IN this republic, the church and the State
should be kept absolutely and for eyer
| separate. 1t comes from a religious sect
| upon which the State has bestowed more
| tavors than upon all other sects COM
! blned. 1t comes from a sect that has
| quite as much freedom of religious wor-
| ship as any other sect in the State. 1t
comes from a sect which, in all lands,
wherever it has had the power in the
past, and in all lands in which it has
the power to-day, denies to other
sects freedom of religious worship
The only sect, denomination, or church
in this State that is asking for
this sectarian legislation in the Roman
Catholic. That church wants the
State to authorize it to teach pub
licly on Sunday, and to pay it for
teaching. publicly to the inmates of our
State institutions its peculiarly sectarian
doctrines touching our Lords atoning
sacrifice. That is what the bill now be-
! fore the Legislature chiefly means. Nc
! other religious denomination in the State
has ever dared to make such a demand -