The record-union., 1897-02-28
In RELIGIONS REALM.
Expressions From Various Religious
Newspapers.
The Religious Thought of the Day
as Expressed in the Sec
tartan Press.


as Expressed in the Sec
tartan Press.
Speaking of the New Years pastoral
of the Archbishop of York, the Living
Church (P. Ed Of Chicago says: THE
Archbishop is no Doubt right in think
ing that the true position and claims
of the Anglican communion are COM
lr1g to be understood as they never were
before by the people generally. What
has been vindicated in the theological
| tiealtises and in church papers and
periodicals could never reach more
than a limited audience. But the course
| of things during the last two or three
| years, eliminating in the papal con-
| domination of Anglican orders, has
drawn the attention of everybody to
! the crucial subject of the real charac-
ter of the claim of Catholicity for the
church. People who have never before
| Thought of the meaning of ApoStolical
| succession or have dismissed it as a
| lnediaeval superstition, begin to under
| stand that it is of fundamental i'm
portance. In like manner, now that
the church of Rome has pointedly as
| SAILED the priesthood of our own COM
munion, the doctrine of priesthood is
coming ITO be understood by many who
| never understood it before. This kind
| of knowledge is increasing more and
| more. And the mass of literature to
! which this controversy has given rise
| is in everybody's hands. 1t has brought
| Within the reach of all clear statements
| of Catholic truth, and is binding to-
| ge,ther in a closer bond of brotherhood
| the members of our ancient national
| church,
1.-The orthodox man." says the New
York Outlook, "maybelieve that Jesus
| Christ rs God and man, a dual being,
| acting sometimes as God and sometimes
! as man, or that he was perfect God
clothed with all the wisdom and power
of God on earth, and now clothed in
heaven in his earthly body, or that he
was the Spirit of God in a human body,
and therefore subject to it's limitations,
or that he was a man in which the
Spirit of God tabesnacled, manlresting
himself in a perfectly dominated and
| directed human life-in each case he
lis equally orthodox, if he sees in Jesus
er's person, and in his life and death
| the glory of the Fathers love In short
to be orthodox is not to hold to any
old-time theories of inspiration, mira
Giles, or incarnation, OF. other cognate
dOctrines-it is t1 believe that for us
men and for our salvation the pro-
phets of old time spake, the witness in
wondrous works was given and the
f1N,~i zNfI IsNxl
He who holds this faith an'H breaches
| this gospel belongs in the orthodox fell
lowship, and ought not ito go out of it,
unless he is driven out unjustly by
men Of narrow mould who mistake
their self-will for the law of God, ther
creed for the Christian falith and their
| ecclesiastical zeal for the enthusiasm
of divine charity
xA
'The phrase 'theistic evolution when
employed as a term of philosophy or of
theology is a lf-contradiotion," says
the Interior" Pres.) of Chicago. THE
Outlook prints this inexcusable blum
der on the title page of it's new 'theo-
logical serial, and then immediately
emphasizes 1T; I acknowledge myself
writes DR.. Abbott. ito be a radical evo-
lutionist-it is hardly necessary to say
a theistic evolutionist' It would scarce
ly be possible to write a sentence which
would equal this in absurdity. There
is self-contradiction in each of its
clauses, and it is rendered the more
preposterous by the employment of the
word radical 1t is as if one should
proclaim himself a radical geometri-
cian.' Radicalsm is a passion. It re-
sides in the emotions, not in the reason
1t is in its nature contradictory to both
science and philosophy It's synonym
in this connection is fanaticism; I am a
patical scientist or I ann fanatical
philosopher He may be fanatic and
he might be a scientist, but he cannot
be both. SO he might be a theist, or he
might be an evolutionist, but he can
not be both. If you should ask any
professor of biology or a professor of
ethnology, philology, geology, astron
omy, or physical geography, If he be-
lieyed in evolution he would undoubt-
edly answer yes. But If you asked him
in the proper connection, If he were an
evolutionist, he would understand you
TO be inquiring whather he were an
evolutionist as opposed to the creation
list. The distinction between the science
and the philosophy is perfectly Well
understood by all those who give any
attention to the subject. To claim
therefore, under the title the theology
of evolution, that the science of evo-
tuition is antagonistic to evangelical
Christianity and to assume to act as
the exponent of the science in making
this declaration, is the brassiest i'm
pudence."
"a large proportion of human con-
duct is neither essentially right nor
essentially wrong, and may be either
right or wrong according to circum-
Stances says the Church Standard
(P. Ed of Philadelphia. Ito this broad
category belongs every mans way of
living A mode of life may be extrava-
CANT and even dishonest in one man
which is both lawful and becoming in
another; and when the quality of con-
duct depends upon motives, who shall
Judge? The woman who broke a box
of ointment of spikenard, very precious,
on our Savior's feet was condemned
by the bystanders for extravaganza;
and the condemnation was not sus-
tanned Our blessed Lord was always
careful to withhold His Judgment of
special cases; and in one which was
expressly brought to Him, that divinest
of pastors refused even to give advice.
Man who made me- a indigo OY