The San Francisco call., 1896-04-08

he will reveal anything told him in the con-
fess;onal There is not a single authentic
instance in all the hundreds of years of the
history of the church of the violation of the
secrecy of the confessional.-Rev Father
Power, Catholic, Montgomery, Ala.
ST. PATRICK.
st. Patrick taught Christianity in the spirit
of love and the brotherhood OF man. We
should think of him because he belongs not to
q sect but to the people. He takes place in
the history of Luther and all great reformers,
! and fitting monument to his memory is the
thousands OF Irish hearts that keep ever green
manity.-Rey: DR.. Long, Congregationallst,
Waukegan. Ill
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
Every city wants good streets and good sew
erage and suitable school buildings and public
works of various kinds. The affairs to be at
tended to in city are not political, but finan-
cial. city is like q great business firm. Poll
tics ought not to have ANYTHING to do with
city elections. The very best men to m anage
important public enterprises ought to be
chosen to oftice.-Rev. Cyrus Richardson, Con-
gregatfonalist, Nashua, N H.
CUBA LIBRE.
Let us sympathiZe with Cuba. Let lis Dlesd
for her rights and the liberties in the name of
religion of the brotherhood of man in the
name OF the love note that speaks so clear and
high amid the splendor of our nineteenth
century civilization. If this fails then lie. us
wrap around Cuba the Stars and Stripes-Old
GlGryIand r say to Spain and all the world
IL
Presbyterian, Columbus. Ohio.
EDITORS AND PREACHERS
The fact that journalists differ among them
selves and from the preachers on religion and
social questions should not surprise ANYBODY V
who knows how much the preachers differ
themselves on the same questions. The
preachers seem "to want the whole earth" of
journalism little too soon, while the editors
whose outlook upon the world is wider, are
obliged to be economical with their preaching
In order that their newspapers fulfill their
great distinctive mission = publicity-Rey.
John Grtfiiths, Presbyterian, Scranton, Pa.
HE'LL.
To SEND sinner to endless hell is no mora a
victory over sin than TO corral the social evil
within certain plague spots is victory over
that vice, or to Danish all the Hawaiian lepers
to Molokai is victory over leprosy. The only
cure lI-not to shut it up in any kind of nether
world. there to propagate and tester and put
refy to the end of infinite time-Rey. G.
henry, Unlversallst, Cleveland, Ohio.
INGERsoLL
Colonel Ingersoll is glorious champion ot
human liberty. There is no one on the Mat
form who has done much or is doing so
much to Tree the individual from kingly or
priestly tyranny. He has genius he has grea :
heart, he loves humanity. No man of this gen
Grafton has such power to stage his thoughts.
MS aualence never wearies OF his word pain t.
ing or fails to respond in joyous Appreciation
Ten years ago, in public address, l thanked
God Tor the French Revolution and Colonel
III SersOll DelleVe tnev are both precurSore
of better age.-Rev. w B. Craig Cbrist;.n
Church, San Antonio, Tex.
THEN AND Now
We have no right to conclude that the ante
dnuvians were worse than mankind at other
epochs of the earth's history We do not raod
that they were guilty OF idolatry. and thew
were far from being so deep in the slough of
lniquity as the Sodomites and some of ON =
doubt that the earth was as thickly popuIafed
then as now. The sun pursues the same ma IN
in the heavens, and the moon presents the
rains, and the seasons come ana 90 and ciar
and night alternate, and the winds blow and
the zephyrs sigh, and the flowers exude their
wsre.-Rev. r. Duffy. Episcopalian, Laramie
Wyo.