The record-union., 1893-04-01

nay uIdue our OpluiOn concerning IHe0l
plain to every one, but we have no desire
TO see those who disagree with us pro-
serlbed because of their opinions. If
minister teaches doctrines which are con-
trary TO the Standards of the church let
him be tried: but we do not suppose that
there would be any justice in insisting
upon putting those who sympathiZe with
him, and believe that his utterances are
within tine limits of liberation, on trial
also. That surely is not an offense against
The Standards or constitution of the
church."
1--WE suppose that it must be admitted"
says The Interior Pres OF Chicago, that
the Gospel ministry do not. as profess
sion, exercise the intellectual influence
tnat they once did. one cause of this is
the closing up of the disparity, in educa-
ton and intelligence. between the minis
try and the people. The ministry have
risen in intellectual accomplishments
during the past fifty years, but the people
have risen faster because they had a
plane so much lower to rise from. \
man who knows barely how to read can
easily double or quadrupie his education.
y trained minister cannot in his short
life double his. Not 10 go into this sub
Ject, 1t is sufficient to say that it is OF the
greatest importance that the ministry
should be held by the people in love,
elsment in their power for good and
III the extension of the Gospel. But
the ministers Of our church are now to be
put to a new test. Here we laymen are
living in concord, and working with
singieness of heart and purpose for the
Gospel and the extension OF Christs
kingdom. We do not want to be divided.
We want to stand and work together
and the question whether we shall or
shall not thus be permitted to cleave to-
gether IN the bonds of the Gospel is in the
hands OF our ministry. Now suppose
warning theologians shall succeed in fore
ing US apart, what will be the effect on
the minds of the membership? To ask
that question is to answer it,"
Speaking of the recent dedication of the
Bible School at Tuskegee, Ala, the New
\ ork ChT1StidR onion says: The third
step in this educational movement is to
provide the colored pulpits with intelli-
gent and moral preachers. There is an
increasing number of high-minded and
noble coIored men who are endeavoring
through the pulpit, to redeem their race;
Out IL IS still sadly true that great pro-
portion of the colored preachers are but
blind leaders of the blind, and a great
proportion OF their preaching is simply
an appeal 10 the imagination and to the
emOuons OF too susceptible race. We
hesitate to differ in judgment from men
VINO have had large experience in
southern work, but we are convinced
that the present need of the South is not
more fully equipped theological semina-
RES Tor making scholarly ministers, but
Bible schools OF the type that Mr.. Moody
has made so familiar, to teach the simpler
principles of the religion of the Bible,
That we may at once send preachers into
the held who can at least read the Bible
and who comprehend its more funda-
mental teachings. 1t is q great deal
cheaper, and, in our judgment, for some
years to come it will be great deal wiser,
to send to Northern semlnaries such col
ored preachers as show capacity for the
higher scholarship, than to maintain in
the South theological seminaries, de-
nominatiOnaI in their character, for this
purpose"
The Northwestern Christian AdUocate
(Meth.) of Chicago thinks that the "Ro-
man Church is now making strenuous
efforts to dazzle the republic. 1t poses
| throughout the world as the exclusive
friend of the workingman, and as to that
the Protestant churches may have reason
TO mourn some OF their past lukewarm-
ness and want of wisdom. The fair soon
to open will be spectacular in the ex-
treme, and Rome will hang out its ban
ners in the ostentatious embrace of the
Red, White and Blue 1t proposes to be
regarded as superAmerican, and the
teacher and exemplar Of patriotic proph-
cts. The field Of battle is simply changing
its site and weapons. He who has not
noted that fact during the past decade has
been blind or asleep. Rome has repu-
dated the tagot and the thumbscrew for
use upon republican soil 1t now pro-
poses to use American weapons, and os-
tensibly adopt American methods of self
assertion. He who is hasty to allege the
current employment Of middle-age Ro-
man tactics will surely enrich Rome with
the spoils that come Of reaction against
unjust accusation. Any lawyer may plead
case at the bar, any Judge may preside
in court, but be very careful to choose the
rIght man to write NOur indictnnnts .