The record-union., 1893-12-22

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the hands of Rome by yielding to the de-
mand for share of State school funds in
support of distinctively Roman Catholic
schools, will do so in spite Of strong
public feeling against such policy"
''We look for fresh efforts every year
to secure the public money for the sup
port of Roman Catholic schools, for this,
and this only, is what is meant by any
schemes to subsidiZe State Treasures for
denominatiOnal schools" says the Con-
gregGtio1,0iSt of Boston. ''No other de-
nomination asks for money for such a
purpose. It is the settled policy of the
Roman Catholic Church to seek it, and it
is equally the settled policy OF the Ameri-
can people to refuse it. Such religious
education as can be impaired through
the character of the teachers, and by
common consent in textbooks and in
struction, our children Will continue to
receive. We wish there We're more. We
hope the religious character of the nation
will rise to so high level that 1t Will be
felt to be necessary that every child in
the land should be impressed, as an es-
sential part of his education, with sense
Of his personal responsibility to God and
the supreme obedience to God. That
should be the aim of every Christian par
ent and of every church. But no matter
of public policy. has been more clearly de-
ternined than that the State should
maintain common school system, should
support and control it, and that it should
not support the schools of any religious
denomination. The people are taxed as
citizens, not as members of churches"
''We warn the politicians" exclaims
the New y Ork Christian Enquirer (Bapt.),
''and assure them that the enactment of
such an unwise and unpatriOtic bill will
be followed by an uDheaval that viii
hurl from power those who vote for it
and the parties that maintain 1t. The
Church OF Rome should understand that
IL has fooled the American people about
as long, and almost as far, as is possible.
The flash lights of public sentiment are
being turned upon the schemes and plots
| OF JesuIts to rule or ruin this republic,
and only has the presentation of such
bill as this been wanting to consolidate
public sentiment and awaken the public
Indignation. 1t must be understood that
II such bill as this is passed 1t Will lead
TO ballot-bOX war of a magnitude that
viii astonish the old man on the banks of
the Tiber who is trying to run American
schools and American politics. The
school system is too dear to our people TO
passage OF this bill would be like the gun
fired from Beauregard's cannon on Fort
Sumter, that would make every drop Of
Protestant blood tingle. 1t would intro
duce new element into our politics that
neither party could handle, and the
sooner it is introduced the better it will
be for liberty-loving people"
1.-THE members of the New York Pres
bytery who have a resolution up for re-
fusing to license young men who may at
tend Union Seminary are proposing to
put preterition in the wrong place. re-
marks the Interior (Pres.) Of Chicago.
TO say that they will not liconse any
young man from anywhere who passes
a satisfactory examination is not a tena-
ble position. Those brethren have
no such rule in regard to students from
the German universities, nor from any
institution outside of our church. What
we are most sorry for is that such course
is the way not to do it. 1t gives the SEM
mary further occasion for saying that iti
standing in defense Of liberty, law and
justice. We wish we could appeal per-
sonally to every member Of the directory
of the Union upon the basis solely OF his
own convictions. Not a man on that
board is or can be satisfied with the stu
alton. Not one OF them who does not
feel that be is being placed in false po-
sition, that he is compelled to resist as
saults under great disadvantages. But
nion Seminary is strong enough and
independent enough to do the right thing
even in the face OF seeming cOmpulsion,
to do it with noble disregard OF the ap-
pearance OF defeat"
Speaking of the New Puritanism" the
Chicago Standard (Bapt.) observes: The
old Puritanism, for example, stood aloof
10 u
and seeking 20 annihilate it. Similar was
its attitude towards the whole idea of
amusements, viewing life as thing so
serious that no portion OF it should be
spent in what the world calls pleasure.
The new Puritanism holds to the pOssi-
bility Of bringing all forms Of amusement
into such relation to religion and moral
ity as to be controlled by them, their mis-
chieYous tendencies eliminated, and GER
tain possibilities for good claimed to be in
| them turned to account. IL makes Spe-
cial mention in this connection of the
| theater, and processes to reform it by
patroniZing it. . We are strongly
of the opinion that the new Puritanism
has mistaken its mission. In fact, that
name had been for at least half a century,
probably more, appropriated before these
good people ever thought OF taking it up.
The new Puritanism. in the legitimate
and best understood meaning Of that
phrase, while recognizing the duly cheer
tul element in human lie, and approving
of what will brighten and gladden. with
out either corruptipg or de1Orming, aims
to educate public opinion. and especially
the youth OF each generation, IN higher
purposes of life than mere amusement,
and in the sheer avoidance of those ap-
pearances of evil which seduce towards
what is not appearance merely. Itaims
| at reform or methods of annihilation for
that which is in its own nature evil and
detrimental, and at bringing about the
new life by first, through ministries of
Divine Grace, realizing the new heart.
In other words, it does not have the
smallest sympathy with methods for
making clean only the outside of the cup
and the platter"