The record-union., 1897-01-03

who spirftualize and inspire. Occasion
ally we find both of these gifts con-
ferred upon the same person, but not
often. In these days, when the organ
lzlng spirit has received new impulse,
the minister who is gifted with execu-
tive ability has new opportunity. 1t
is his pride and his privilege to build
up the institution He may not shine
as preacher, but he may put a brick
| in here and a brick in there, and may
see the steady growth of the organiza-
ton which he is trying to build. On
the other hand, there are ministers who
are devoid of this organizing power
They may gather a church around their
personality, but it is not likely to exist
after they have gone. Remove the mag
netism of their presence, and it goes to
pieces. Let neither type of man or work
be undervalued. There is a. place for
the church carpenters and bricklayers,
whose work shall live after them in the
institutions they build. There is need,
too of those atmospheric influences ra-
dlsblng from personality which warm
and vivify and profoundly influence
human lives, and thus influence and
mold generations which are ito come.
We need not ask what visible memorial
minister has left when the spiritual
thermometer shows that he has raised
the temperature of life; for that means
the budding germ and the ripening
fruit
The harvest of 'verts which the Ro-
man authorities so confidently looked
oC -
against Anglican orders still fails to
materialize,' says the Living Church
(P. Ed of Chicago. "It is said they
number exactly three, two priests ana
the wife of one of them. But Cardinal
Vaughan stated In a speech before the
Roman Catholic Truth Society that he
had heard of a Protestant schoolboy
who refused to go to communion any
more because he heard that the Pope
denied the validity of English orders
That was certainly a very encourag ging
circumstance. His eminence thought
the delay in the overdue harvest was
owing to the fact that many persons
were studying and asking advice We
Should imagine the first advice given
by their Roman friends would be to
stop studying at once. Study in this
case is pretty sure to be fatal, SO far
as the papal bull is concerned"
On the subject of lay evangeliZation
the Church Standard" (P. ED of Phil
adelphia says: 1T is idle to say that
what man must do by his whole life,
he ought not to do by word of mouth.
Common sense rebels against the no
ton, which is without warrant of Holy
Scripture, that the work of evangeliza-
ton by preaching the gospel with the
hVing voice is a peculiar prerogative
OF any order in the church, however
sacred. We are told that the ordained
man breaches by authority; SO he
does, but so does every Christian man.
There was no doubt on that point in
Apostolic times. When Saul made
havoc of the church, entering into every
house and haling men and women to
prison, not only Apostles and elders
and deacons, but all in general who
were scattered abroad went eyerv-
where preaching the Word and no one
fancied then that they preached with
out authority. They preached of neces-
sity. That very scattering abroad and
the unofficial preaching of the dispersed
disciples was one of the means by
which Almighty God overruled the rage
Of the prosecutor to the spreading of
the Gospel"