The record-union., 1893-08-26
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.

some Matters of Interest to Both
Ministers and Laymen.
lone of the most notable enrichments
which the Prayer Book received during
the recent revision" says the LiUtHd
Church (P. e. of Chicago, twas the ad-
ditlon to the calendar of the Feast of the
TRANSPORTATION. While we do not agree
with distinguished Bishop in regarding
thls as clear cut above other gains,'
since we would emphatically give that
place to the restoration of the Nicene
Greed in the Communion Service, with
the rubrlc ordering it to be used on the
greater festivals, of it's great fitness and
propriety there can be no possible doubt.
1t may, perhaps. be considered as a pecu-
llarly happy stroke that such an ohserv-
ance could be added to the Christian year
IN this branch of the church at a time
ike the present. The Gospel narratives
are being constantly called in question.
me miraculous element especially is as
sailed by philosophical and scientific
! criticism. We are asked to believe
that the loftiest moral teaching the
world has ever seen is imbedded in
mass OF untrustworthy legend. 1t is
Wen, therefore, that the church should
throw down the gantlet, as it were, in
tne lace OF this lnsidious unbelief by ad-
ulhg 10 her commemoration of the stu
pehdous miracles OF the Resurrection and
tne Ascension the observance of that
wonderful manifestation which revealed
10 the chosen three by authorization the
glory OF the Lords exalted humanity,
and which, accordingly, was not to be
proclaimed 10 others until the Son of
Man should be risen again from the
dead"
The New York Churchnaa3e Up. e. saws:
mat series OF revolutions which is called
| the reformation, arose largely from the
| lact That no one man, Pope though he
might be, could harmoniZe and satisfy
the rival and hostile interests of such ma
tlons as England, France and Spain and
the empire, to say nothing of his own in
terests as petty sovereign. What is the
Pope to do, when, in addition to the Old
| World, he has to keep in due check and
| order the eager young life of the new?
he must be on the spot. But he can not
be on the spot-it is the very ground OF
his sovereignty that he is Bishop, not of
baltimore or New York, but of Rome.
In Rome, clothed with mystery, scarcely
ever seen but in some gorgeous pageaut,
acting through the consummate skill and
lmpenetrable secrecy of the Propaganda,
| he could make believe to know all about
America, and to be able to meet every
emergency. But when he sends Mgr
Satolll TO Washington, he virtually saws;
must give up the pretense Of governing
America from Rome. Only Americans
| can understand American people and
American institutions. My delegate will
consult with them. But Mgr. Satolli is
not IN the least mysterious. Nobody
cares to kiss his foot. He travels in or
10 int, i
Jaunty reporters as if he were an ordin-
airy mortal. Instead of calming strife as
an impartial umpire, he unavoidably gets
himself hated as violent partisan.
American Romanlsts are far from that
point yet, but it is not impossible that in
years to come they shall have asked
and answered-the question: If the Pope
is obliged to confess that an Italian
Bishop residing in Rome cannot govern
us, why not choose a Pope of our own
who CAM"
'If patriotic Americans do not OBJ
struct the process by an ill-timed press
ure. the next thing in order in the United
States Is the practical breaking up of all
ecclesiastical systems dependent upon
foreign authority and influence" SAYS
the Christian Register (Unit.) of Boston,
The instinct OF freedom is strong in all
human beings. Men like to govern
themselves, and submit to arbitrary die
tation only when they expect to gain
some greater good by submission. If
left to work out their own results. for
eign systems imported here will soon
break up. When the need of mutual
defense against domestic enemies is not
felt by our toreignborn citizens, they be-
come restive under restraints imposed
for the benefit of ecclesiastical rulers
whom they never see and to whom thew
do not owe allegiance in return for pro-
lection. The evident and desirable tend
ency of all forms of religion is to break
into national churches first, then into de-
nominations, then to form new combina-
tions. No conceivable events could now
drive the Episcopal Church in the United
States TO take orders from the Archbishop
of Canterbury. An American Pope. SO
dreaded by the patriots, is, if they only
knew 1t, the very thing they should de-
voutly pray for. An American Pope means
an American Catholic Church and the
destruction of the power OF Rome on
American soil.'
The Interior lPres.) of Chicago has the
following: Historical science was re-
created on new basis, upon the hvpoth-
esls that epochs created men rather than
men epochs.' So says DR.. Lyman Abbott
in a late number OF one of our reviews.
This is in accord with that doctrine of ev-
olution which has of late wears become
DIR. AbbotJ,s gospel, iii which the exter-
nal not the internal is sovereign, in which
the thing not the man is supreme It is
an easy philosophy and a captivating
one; but 1t rests upon assumptions diff
cult TO prove, and contradicted by both
our consciousness and our experience.
1t was not Palestine that made the He
brew, 1t was the lsraelite that made Pal
estine. 1t was in the fulIness of time'
that God sent forth his SOM but it was