The record-union., 1895-09-14

were not averse to saving their church
from the fangs of the State and to reap
the rewards of sweating, even If super
rogatory, championship. Be that as it
may, we doubt the right of the State to
compel citizens to keep g flag over their
private property. 1t might say that
whatever flag is hoisted must be Ameri-
can. If the State can compel one flag,
perhaps it can require two flags. We in
cline to think that no State can compel
q display Of bunting over private prop
erty."
zone of the ablest of our Southern
preachers" observes the Examiner
(Bapt.), has been lifting up his voice
against those audacious 'females'-as
they say in that locality, meaning women
and girls-who have presumed to in
dulge in the fascinating pastime of
bicycle riding. We are disposed, for
several reasons, to think that the preach
or has been misdirecting his able artil-
lery of invective. In the first place, the
more fact the bicycle is an innovation on
established modes of locomotion does not
in itself make it worthy of censure. In
the second place, we are very sure that
the kind of women who would be at all
affected by our friends vigorous admo-
nitions would be the last to engage in
anything that could be accounted immod-
est. And thirdly, we are equally sure
that there is nothing immodest in bicyc-
ling per Se any more than in the kim
dred pastime of horseback riding-an
improved manner of locomotion for
women in the South. AS to the costume
of the woman bicycler. with occasional
exceptions 1t is, SO far as our observation
has gone, modest and becoming, and
much more convenient and healthful
than the ordinary street costume of to-
Ia tT1h 70 ind
ment In so great matter, but really
it does seem to our unsophisticated mind
that our womenkind are quite as capable
of settling questions of modesty and pro-
priety as any male person OF us ALL"
The London Church ReUieW declares
for "a New Crusade" "What we want"
it says, "is united prayer. In order to
attain our object we want Christians all
over the w0rld-memb bers of the Ortho-
dox, the Latin. the Anglican Church.
and all who call themselves by the name
OF Protestant-all, in a word, who have
been baptized in the Name of the Blessed
Trinity-to unite in one earnest and pro-
longed supplication to the one God, the
Author OF unity, to bring about the re-
union of Christendom. We want peo-
ple's minds to be saturated with the idea
that Christian unity is essential and that
it is possible; that disuniOn is hateful to
God and harmful 10 the progress of the
truth. We want each individual TO be
assured that he can promote or hinder
gOdly union and concord-tnat he him.
self, by his attitude OF mind, his actions
and his words is may, must be- working
either for or against the reunion of Chris
tendon, For this is a matter from which
no one can stand aloof-he must be on
one side or the other, either consciously
or unconsciously. We want everyone
to understand that his efforts towards re-
union are of supreme importance to the
well-being of the Catholic Church No
man can plead that he exercises no influ-
ence at all. He can influence heaven by
his prayers, and his fellcw-men by his
words. and by the tar more eloquent
language of his example. In fine, we
want to enlist all mankind in the new
crusade of rescuing Christ's interests
from the blighting influence OF disunion
and variance"
The Bishop of Blisborrow Or. C.),
speaking at Shaw, England, is reported
to have said that "plenty OF Protestants
had asked him to hear their confessions,
and Protestant clergymen had made the
same request to him." This leads the
English Cbatrchna1 10 reply: ''We do not
believe that even one of those who made
such a request would admit that they are
Protestants. No doubt they were ritual
lists, without an exception. But what
set of scared consciences these men and
women must have had, while remaining
in the Church of England, to go to
Popish Bishop for confession! 1t looks
as though they doubted the validity of
the absoIutions given by ritualistic
priests. The Bishop did not tell his
hearers how he treated these requests,
whether he granted or refused them.
Whatever may be pleaded on behalf of
the laity who applied to DR.. Blisborrow,
nothing can be said in excuse of the cler-
gymen, whose moral sense must have
been almost entirely obliterated ere they
could act in such soandalous manner"