The record-union., 1894-09-29

earthly and are an attempt of Protest
ants to do what they have often charged
the Romanlsts with doing, and denounced
them therefor. My kingdom is not of
this world said Christ, -else would my
servants fight This passage has deep
meaning. 1t has been used by the time
serving and timorous to justify indiffer-
ence to their duties as citizens, and by
partlsans to WELD the church into line to
support their schemes. Though Christ's
kingdom is not of this world. its
servants are in the world. They are
to seek first the kingdom of heaven and
Its righteousness, aud then in all the
spheres of life, individual, domestic, So
cial, political and ecclesiastical, exhibit
the spirit and practice the precepts of
Christi
"a Bible Education Council has is
sued an address to the school board
electors of London" says the London
Spectator. ut is remarkable, In the first
place, for the dogmatic tone of its state
ments about Scripture. All the doctrines
OF Christianity are expressly revealed in
the Bible and the Bible is the Bible,
, without superadded detinitions.' 1t Is,
in fact, our old friend the Bible without
noie or COMMENT The most difficult
book in the world is also the one book in
the world which needs no explanation.
The actual words and phrases of the
Bible are all that is wanted in religious
teaching, and a parrot who had been
kept from hearing anything but Bible
language would be the best of possible
teachers. The address is remarkable, in
the second place, for the odd mixtures
which appears IN the signatures. After
the repeated assertions of eminent Non
contormiSts that their ideal of Bible
teaching is the Bible explained in what
ever sense the teacher honestly under
stands II IL tItflA
TO find some of those who have been
foremost in making these assertions
putting their names to a declaration
that the Bible text should be taught
without any particular sense being
given TO it. 1t is more odd still te find
nigh churchmen like Prebendary Eyton
and Canon Trench maintaining that the
words of our Lord and his Apostles
without definitions or interpretations Of
any kind, contain all things necessary
for a full belief We fancy Mr.. EyJon
has preached sermons on the creeds be-
fore now, and that these sermons have
contained a good deal of superadded
definition. What an amount of supertiu-
Gus labor he has given himself in defer
ence to old-fashioned notions about the
place OF the pulpit When the second
lesson and the epistle and the epistle and
gospel contain all things necessary for
full belief why should the preacher put
Peploe again, if we do not do him an in
justice, has been accustomed to spend
some time and trouble IN proving that
the New Testament gives no sanction to
sacerdotalism or to high views of the
sacraments.' Now he has come to admit
that 1t has all been wasted labor. The
actual words and phrases of the Bible
Holy Scripture without superadded
detinitions'-are enough of themselves to
refute the Romanist and the Ritualist,
and all these powerful discourses have
been simple superfiuities."
Commenting upon an article by the
Rev. DR.. pabney on immature preaching,
the New York Observer Pres remarks:
"a seminary training cannot make a
minister. We have noticed weakness
on the part of some men in the ministry
course and the laying on of hands in
ordination. These things, with a black
coat and white tie OF ancient order, have
been pretty much the only stock in trade.
There has been an unconscious conscious
ness of apostolic succession, where there
has never been any manifestation of
apostolic success. In fact, there has
been neither the one nor the other.
The young man in whose bones Gods
word burns like a fire will find
it difficult TO keep quiet. The work
of the seminary is not the silencing
of such men; it is rather to sharpen
their God-given talent. 10 regard the
preachers avocation as a trade is all
wrong. He must be called of GOD as
surely as Samuel of old was called, and
commissioned amid such scenes as those
amid which the prophet Isaiah obtained