The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-30

in the Episcopal church an air of cult ure evidently following from "Let all things be done decently and in order"
 The church has always been free from everything cratic and fanatical in re- llgion There is nothing wild, but ev- anywhere thoughtfulness and precision, striking not in sympathy with the popu- lar religious uprisings. 1t makes no room in its religion for popular reviV- Gls and is free from religious weak ness; in other words 1t minds its own business. It is willing to share with other religious bodies the rights which belong to them in common.
 Methodists believe that conversion must be expressed and that faith must
 be proved by text. Catholics and Epls- copalians represent ceremony and sym. bols. There is in neither of the latter churches any appliance for instantan- eously getting religion, as they have
 no use for revival terms. They do not believe that one can get religion as he
 can get the measles. All special ma chtnery for conversion is absent. The work of the Episcopal church is pre- eminenly educational and not spas modic. There is never any necessity for mourning over its members. It ties with many ropes and if one fails
 the others will hold. It sends as few
 to hell as possible, because they dis agree with it in faith and does not call people of other churches children
 of the devil Large room is made in prayer and thought for the salvation
 of all. In this respect the Catholic church goes to the extreme of making provision for the unconscious man and
 does not turn his case out of court at death, but gives him a chance for a new trial and so has even a larger rope than the Episcopal church for
 mems salvation. The idea of salvation among evangelical sects is the belial
 in the ability of man to prevent him self from being precipitated into a | dangerous place in the next world, The | Episcopal church procures salvation as
 education, religion, culture, devotion, and character. It never stands before the public to say Were here to snatch people from he'll" nor does it try to make an insurance business out of that of religious nature. While not here as a fir= insurance company yet it
 might write a policy of some sort.
 While Methodism is the most business i like of religious sects except Moham-
 mechanism, the Episcopal church is just
 the opposite, It is poetry and applies
 not to commercial and logical facul- ties but to the aethetic, not to science | but to art. not to philosophy but to
 music. It's pulpit is not an arena and 1 is not given to the dissemination of
 wild themes. There is 8 great range of 1 opinion in the Episcopal church, but
 all find fellowship under the same form
 of religion. This is proved by the fact that Gladstone, Dr. Driver and others ! holding distinct ideas on certain points are yet united in the church. In the
 early history of our country the Epis- copal church did great service. In scenes of religious fanaticism 1t cama
 in with its dignitied service and did
 much to correct things cratic and ir- l regular and has made an equilibrium in religious affairs, great thing in new country where the people are apt to in dulge their feelings rather than their
 intellects. The Episcopalian mode is
 one of calm reflection and delibaration,
 not swayed by the tide of public feeling.
 Would that more of us were charac- 1 terized by this spirit"
 1 The lecture next Sunday evening will
 be on "The Good Things of COngrega-
 tiOnalism "