The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-15

call the Dark Ages. The clergy were too
ignorant to do much preaching, but those
who are not thinkers are oftentimes workers,
and hence rose those magnificent churches
which have been the glory of succeeding
ages. They were erected for the purposes
of worship and not to be gazed at from the
outside The middle ages were devout ages,
and the people spent much time In their
churches, in the reverential exercises of an
elaborate ritual. In the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries came the great intellectual
awakening. Then sermons were everything
Today we go back to Bible times. When the
disciples of Trcaz came together on the first
day of the week to celebrate the holy eu-
charist Paul preached unto them sermon
which reached we'll into the night. The OBJ
ject for which the disciples assembled was
for holy communion, but preaching was not
divorced from it.
The fourth principle is reverence.
The Reformation was revolution, an over
turning of the established customs and modes
of thought of centuries. The extremists OF
the Reformation times said, we will have
no more churches, but meeting-houses. The
idea of Westinghouse is that 1t is to be
treated with no greater reverence than
synagogue. A church inherits the glories
of a temple. Before the Lords ascension
He promised His presence in His church.
The consciousness of this presence causes
the worshipers to exclaim with Jacob: How
dreadful in this place" There is none other
than the house of God, and this is the gate
to heaven. Faith is the evidence of things
unseen.
The fifth principle is parish schools
To advocate parish schools in a country
where public schools have arrived OF such
a state of perfection America would
seem to place one in the position of st. Paul
preaching doctrines subversve of the religion
of the Roman empire. AS a matter of fact,
state institutions and non-state institutions
work tremendously side by side, as for
ample in the case of hospitals Boarding
schools and colleges have always existed
under UNCONVENTIONAL control. The church
remembers that it is written Bring a
child up in the way he should go, and, when
he is old, he will not depart from it, The
mind of a newborn babe is as blank as
sheet of spotless paper, and receives its ideas
through the five senses. The soul operates
through the body, and such is the power of
the body over mind that disordered condi-
ton of the body frequently produces in
sanity. The soul acts through the brain,
which, in childhood. is plastic and easily
developed. The child trained in the fear and
love of God, that he knows God, will, in
mature years, have his brain cells hardened
so as to preserve his modes of thought the
same as in the days of his youth. Chris
tan education is not a matter of the Bible
in school or learning the catechism but re-
ligious influence in molding the character
and changing the individual from the natural
to the spiritual. In the parish school best
of all the church fulflls the Savior's COM
mand: Feed the lambs.''
The sixth principle is Christian Socialism
From the time before the Israelites were
held in Egyptian bondage, there has been war
between the powerful and the weak, the rich
and the poor, the employer and the employe.
The problem of the ages is to be faced by US