The record-union., 1897-06-06

ity. The foremost evangelist of the
day has grieved many a devoted Chris
tan by his sweeping and bitter words
about the churches and the ministers,
and complaints have been made to him,
and, We believe, graciously received.
May other evangelists soon learn wis
| dom. An evangelist who comes to this
country at the call of members of
Christian churches, and whose expenses
and sometimes more are met by MEM
| bers of Christian churches, should be
chary about clubbing our churches so
| many fashionable clubs Such a re-
! Election is i'll timed, if not i'll hammered;
nor is the charge as true as it may
seem to him. We can overlook the
| cheap wit of some evangelist sermons
as one may disregard the chaff if per-
chance wheat be found with it, but no<
the needless arraignment of Christian
| church members who pay for all the
evangelistic work that is ever done. No
! soul was ever saved, and no Christian
professor was ever induced to seek a
! higher and richer Christian life, by dia-
| tribes against the churches
! ITO say that the morals of the stu
dent are no concern of the faculty,
says the New York Evangelist"
| (Pres), is to turn the back upon the
most important educational principle
wrought out in common use in recent
years The entire trend of modern
thought on educational subjects, the
cornerstone of modern pedagogy, is
that there can be no schism in the ed
ucation of the young of any age or
Of n irair
of body mind and spirit must go on all
at once and by steps of equal length,
no advance being made in one sphere
at the expense of any other The
health of the students is as truly a mat
ter of concern TO the faculty as is their
mental training, and their moral con-
dition no less than either of these is
matter for which the faculty is re-
sponsible. There are no doubt, ques-
tons of degree; as the college fathers
need concern themselves with the bodily
exercises of the boys only so far as TO
regulate these in the interest of other
| exercises, secure that the students
| themselves may in general be trusted
to promote athletic interests, so in the
sphere of morals it may be expected
that youths of an age suited to college
life are TO a large degree competent to
take care of themselves. But as no
college faculty is content to see a
bright student neglecting physical ex-
ercise for study, to the detriment of
his health, without a protest so no
faculty can sit outside of a certain de-
gree of responsibility with regard to
the morals of the students under their
charge"
"To open, as the Salvation Army has
recently done in New York, a free
lodging house, and advertise it far and
wide; to open, as a newspaper has done
in New York a free souphouse, and to
advertise it far and wide, is the way
to impOverish the poor, to aggravate
distress, to increase difficulty, to in
jure humanity" says the New York
outlook" That is not the work of
Christian love. For there can be no
love without thought, without labor,
without some measure of self-sacrifice.
To fling a quarter to a beggar in the
street is not love, it is laziness; it is at
best but an idle, inefficient and indiffer-
ent good nature. We do not believe in
Christian science or mind cure or
faith cure or any other of the isms
that every now and then walk across
our stage, like ghosts to disappear
when the cock crows. But in them all,
and giving significance to them, is The
truth that the spirit has more power
over the body than we have been Wont
to think. There is an effect of body
on soul, but there is also an effect of
soul on body There is a power in the
human will to control the nerves and
to minister to the physical organiza-
ton. There are not a few persons who
really need no medicine but this: y
vigorous, emphatic Communicates,
take up your bed, walk There are in
valids who need nothing more than
this: In the name of Jesus Christ |
command thee, Rise and then a help
ing hand to put them on their feet
"Sensationalism in the pulpit and
reckless abandon in the character of
entertainments given to raise money
for religious purposes are being car
ried to an extreme hardly known here
tofore,'' remaks the Living Church"
Up. Ed of Chicago 1.-The doubt arises
whether those who ought to control
such things have any sense of rever-
ence left, or even feel that religion has
anything to do with modesty and self
restraint The more earnest Christian
ministers of all denominations have
long had to contend with raffles and
other forms of gambling at church
fairs and socials, but of late they have
had to encounter a new series of un
fitting, unsavory and immodest inven-
tons, such as mock-marriages, new
woman socials and minstrel shows,
these last being gotten up by young
women and girls, who black them
selves and dress in garments of mascu-
line appearance. Rev. William B. Hale,
in a recent number of The Forum de-
scribes other performances, still more
degrading in their tendency, giving
names and places, which we have no de-
sire to repeat. We heartily wish it could
be said that the church has kept clear of
these reprehensible practices. 1t would
certainly be anticipated that the col
emniz ng character of the services, and
the treining impaired by habitual at
tendance upon them, must preserve us
from these abuses, but, strange to say,
such has not been the case"
Lincoln and the CoEOred Troops.
While visiting the Union forces before
Petersburg, President Lincoln was