The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-04

clear, not that fewer seek the ministry,
but that more who enter other profess
sions of business seek an education. No
longer is the pulpit the chief learned
profession. Now the university edu-
Gates engineers of dozen sorts. law
yers, physicians, teachers. merchants,
farmers. Everybody wants an educa-
ton now, young women as well as
young men, and, of course the percen-
tage rises of those who do not seek the
pulpit
"Parochial missions have sometimes
proved failures" says the Living
Church" P. Ed of Chicago. They
nave borne no apparent fruit, or have
even left behind new troubles and dis
sensions. This has led some to- doubt
the wisdom or utility of the system it
self 1t is certain that not every par
ish is ripe for this method of work
1t is also amost inevitable that a mis-
sion will be failure where there has
been no proper preparation for it, An
atmosphere must be formed in ad-
vance, by prayer and faith. Likewise
must the mission be followed by faith
fui and painstaking labor on the part
of the rector; otherwise there is danger
that the sad results so often observed
after revival of the common type will
be seen here alSo-a speedy reaction
from condition too purely emotional
new Indifference worse than the old
and hearts hardened against future ap-
peals. But whatever may be said Of
missions, in general, or in particular
there can be no doubt in the minds of
true churchmen of the utility and bles-
sedness of the season of Lent. Even
when, as in many parishes, it is spent
very quietly, following simply the indi-
catlonS or the church calendar, thou
SANDS are able to testify to it's bene-
Hceht fruits in imparting to their spir-
1tual lie greater intensity and strength
of purpose"
There is one point SAYS the
Church Standard Up. Ed of Philadel-
phia, "on which our Roman Catholic
friends-for friends we consider them
Notwithstanding the Pope's encycIical
are insisting more and more. They
insist that the Anglican doctrine of the
priesthood and of the Blessed Sacra-
ment differs from that of Rome. We
49, Az Liz 4edSt Oeny that allega-
non; 1t is perfectly true What the
Articles call the Romish doctrine Of
the priesthood and of the mass and of
many other things was swept clean
out OF the Church of England at the
Reformation. We thank God that If
was; for wilder, wickeder. more Sill
perStlt1ouS, or more sacrilegious doc
tiiie imam the Church of Rome permit
tea Tor generations to be preached in
her name and by her authority could
hardIy be imagined. The Protestant
reaction from those denominations was
extreme to deStructiveness. The Anp
Ilcan Reformation was conservative Tn
rejecting the superstitions which Rome
mad tolerated and countenanced the
Chufch OF England was careful to saw
that she intended to reject nothing
which was truly Catholic. Individual
reformers may have said extravagant
Things, as their opponents most assur-
edly did but there can hardly be a.
doubt that if the doctrine of the Conn
Gil of Trent concerning the priesthood
and the Sacrament had only been
made in time, it would have been glad
~ accepted by the English Reformers.
Even so. however it would have been
merely Western doctrine 1t would
have lacked the distinctive authority
OF the Catholic Church which has been
given, let US say, to the Nicene Greed. -