The record-union., 1897-09-26
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
EXPRESSIONS FROM VARIOUS
RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS.
The Religious Thought Of the Day
as Expressed in the Sec
tartan Press.

Standard" (P. Ed of Philadelphia, in
this complete failure of the Patriarchal
scheme (at the Lambeth conference),
and all its visionary adjuncts, but we
are in no way elated by it, because We
expected nothing else; and we rejoice
in it most Of all because we believe
/ it will do more than anything else could
TO raise the conference in the affection
ate confidence Of the American and
! colonial churches. AS we have often
said, an ounce of influence in many
matters OF Importance is worth more
than ton of authority, and we believe
this to be one of those matters. If
the conference had shown the very
slightest disposition to assume powers,
or to promote projects, inconsistent
with the rightful autonomy Of our own
church, or of the Colonial churches of
the British Empire. there would already
have been discomfort and suspicion,
here and elsewhere, such as must ere
long have brought the Lambeth confer
ence into general disrepute. Now that
the very contrary disposition has been
| displayed, SO as to demonstrate beyond
a peradventure that the spirit of cath
olic liberty is not less strong in our sis
ter churches than in our own and that
the rights of each are as dear to all as
| 10 itself, we are fain to believe that
the counsels and resolutions of the
Lambeth Conference will have a weight
and exert an influence in every Protest
ant Episcopal Church on earth which
they neither would nor could have if
they We're delivered in the language of
conciliar authority"
|
| "One phase of the Oambeth) confer
enee proceedings was particularly hope
ful, remarks the Christian Register
! Unit) of Boston. 1.-The faithful were
invited to enter upon a critical study
of the Bible. They were frankly told
that that faith is already in serious
danger which refuses to face questions
that may be raised either on the au
thority or the genui1eness of any part
OF the Scriptures that have come down
TO US. Such refusal creates painful
suspicion in the minds of many whom
we have to teach, and will weaken the
strength of our own conviction of the
truth that God has revealed to u.s. This
declaration is a distinct advance upon
any which would have been received a
little more than a quarter of a century
ago, when the present Archbishop of
| Canterbury incurred the hostility Of his
clerical brethren by writing the first of
the famous Essays and Reviews Prof
JoWetts article on The Interpretation
| of Scripture in that volume was a
reverent devout and scholarly attempt
to do what the Bishops at Lambeth rec
commended; but it nearly cost the Mas
ter Of Balliol his position as Regius
Professor Of Greek at Oxford. Times
have changed; and much may be ex-
pected from future Bishops Of the An
glican Church when they come to test
the truth of the Thirty-nine Articles
and the three creeds in the light of a
free though reverent handling of the
Scriptures
Another indication of the broaden
ing of Christian aItruism,' says the
Interior" Pres.) Of Chicago, "in prep
aration for the new era is what the the
ologians say is the increasing indiffer-
NA'OO ~ blASO1OSy- AS Sldl61l, the prop
Osition is misleading Indifference to
the truth of the Gospel would mean the
disintegration of the churches. There
is no such condition Of mind, but, on
the contrary, personal conservation
and devotion to Christ and to all the
truths which cluster around the cross
which was formerly attributed to the
specialized saints alone There is in
difference to impractical and useless
philosophical distractions which have
been classified under the general term
of systematic theology; but there is
no Indifference, but, on the contrary,
a passionate devotion to Jesus Christ
to all Of Jesus Christ as prophet, priest
and king-the teacher Savior and ruler
Of all who love Him-and of these three
offices that which stands in the midst,
with that of the prophet and king on
either hand, is, and will remain the
most glorious and the most adorable .
''It is to be rememb mbered," observes
the "Christian Leader Univ) of Bos-
ton, that in the criticism which makes
so large a proportion of current litera-
ture there is-we are accustomed to
think and say-nothing in principle
different from what appears in the
Commentary of Adam Clark; but the
vastness of its bulk, it's free handling
of the whole Bible instead of detached
passages and words, has made it a
controlling element in the religious
temper of the age. No one can rea-
sonably doubt that in vital ways and
to disturbing extent ii is to make
what we in these days so often hear
of-the religion of the future quite un-
like that of the past, even of the pres
ent. It's effect in leading the well-in-
formed yet not scholastic community to
see the difference between the essence
of religious faith and life and its his
toric and verbal setting, in apprehend-
ing the spiritual as the real and SO
making the letter helpful and not kill
ing, must give a new and we cannot
doubt higher conception of the office
of Scripture"
A Strike in the Nursery.
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