The record-union., 1893-02-23

something apart from life: a something
tnat can be separated from life: a some
thlng that be parceled out and delivered
1 over at separate counter. This concep-
tlon OF religion is pernicious; and sys-
tenn OF education which assumes IL does
also breed 1t in the hearts and minds of
It's pupils. Religion is simply the art of
right living. 1t is walking soberlv. right
eously and goldly in this present life,
looking Tor the blessed appearing of God
| IN lie to come; il is walking sOberly.
that IS, in self-control-the law OF the indi-
VlduaI; rghteously, that is, rightly to-
ward ones neighbors-thel law Of society:
gouly, that is, reverenIly and humbIy-
the secret of development; looking for
something divine beyoud-the condition
OF perpetual progress. Religion is this
atmosphere OF the thinking, feeling. will
ing creature. II were more rational to
smut boy up IN a vitiated atmosphere
IlFe Gays IN the week, and let him
breathe on Saturday for the other two.
than to shut him OIL from spiritual influ-
ence hVe days in the week and compen-
safe Tor the failure by an over-spirituel-
lzed atmosphere on Sunday. The secllla-
rlzatlon OF the public schools is false in
pedagoglcs. 1t renders true education
impossible. 1t despiritualizes. deyitaI-
ICES education. 1t turns education into a
mechanical process, the teacher into
hlachlnist, the pupil into q 'grind.'"
The friends of (Roman) Catholicism,so
lar as we can see, need apprehend no
great trouble for that church. y saws the
Christian HegiStey tUnt.) OF Boston.
save from one source, and that, Curl
| ously enough, is from the dogma of papaI
| lnIalllbility, designed to be its chief safe
guard. We are told that this dogma was
SO involved IN and implied by the whole
ne OF the church that there was no es-
7 aHN Ill
eC any intelligent observer knows that
the church Is subject to that law of con-
unual waste and repair which, in process
OF tlne, builds its structure anew. and
/ pulIds always something different from
whaI mas been. Professor Santayana
says fIghlly that the world has already
seen more than one religion under the
name of Catholicism.' How far napal
lnialnblllty Will come into conflict with
TINS law OF nature il is for time To know
But 1t must tend in some degree to make
more set and rigid the organization which
mas displayed marvellous adaptability
10 varying conditions. There can he
henceforth little divergence from the line
OF papal utterances. Hitherto the church
mas peen able to tack and veer to different
WINDS, like ship at sea- Now she is
IKE an engine set on rails, and the road
TO be built ahead of heris still unsurveyed.
" nat leafs OF ecclesiastical engineering
" - w AOHu4 leu W DIlUSe or tunnel the
oDStructlons encountered it is now too
soon TO predict. But there is a chance
mere for dangerous complications in time
to come"
GOD has various ways of effecting his
great purposes" says the National Bap-
ttSt OF Philadelphia. "In France, liberty
and progress have come by convulsions;
across the channel, by argument, by ex-
pertinent, by the gradual spread of light.
by a dawn proceeding imperceptibly.
ike the rising of the sun. -Four centuries
ago men broke the bands of Rome at
bound. Liberty came with the confused
noise OF the warrior and with garments
rolled IN blood. In our day, it may come
otherWlse. 1t seems as though Rome
must see that one of TWO futures lies be-
fore komanism i'll America. II Roman
ism demands the blind obedience of
ignorance, and fOrbids TO its people edu-
catlon ana enlargement, then many of It's
best minds viii revolt, and those who re-
mann Will gravitate to the bottom of the
social and political scale. If it allows and
encourages education, then it may retain
ali its adherents, but only in so far as its
teachings commend themselves to the
common sense and conscience of its peo-
pie and Rome VIII be Rome only in
name. We sincerely trust that there is
an increasing liberal element in the
Roman Catholic Church. 1t may seem
Inconsistent with the iniallibility Of the
church; but we would much rather that
people would be inconsistency right thar
consistently wrong"