The record-union., 1898-05-01
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
EXPRESSIONS FROM VARIOUS
RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS.
The Religious Thought Of tho Day
as Expressed in the Sec
tartan Press.

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as Expressed in the Sec
tartan Press.
Discussing, the reply of the English
Archbishops to Cardinal Vaughan on
the subject of Anglican orders, the
Living Church" P. Ed of Chicago
says: This document, though brief. is
decided and comprehensive. Had the
Archbishops felt themselves called upon
to enter upon the field of controversy,
they might, no doubt, have drawn at
tention to the diverse interpretations
which have been given to the word
transubstnatiation.' They might also
nave shown that the fact of the real
presence is the crucial point, and that
upon that fact there is no necessary
difference of opinion; while the term
transubstantiation.' They might also
the mode OF our Lords presence 1t is
upon this point that the Anglican
church refuses to be bound, especially
when the term employed is ambiguous
IN It's popular use, and in its more mar
row sense is based upon philosophy
| which We suppose is not regarded even
by Roman theologians as having bind
| ing authority upon the faithful This
rejoinder of the Archbishops, with it's
uncompromising rejection of the papal
CLAIMS and novel dogmas, such as the
immaculate Conception of the Blessed
virgin, and the papal infallibility.
draws the lines again with emphasis.
and thus at the end of the nineteenth
century the official relations of the two
churches remain what they have been
For
-, So
We do not believe" says "The
Church Standard" P. E.) of Philadel-
phla. that willful unbelief can be over
come by any force of argument. and
still there are priori difficulties which
1t is the part of the Christian apollo
glst TO remove as they occur from time
to time in the development of human
tnought In our own day science has
furnished one strong probability in ia
Vor OF the continuance of personal life
after death. The established doctrine
OF the conservation of force tends that
way; but the indestructibility of the
atom almost demonstrates it. For the
atom Is not the only unit in nature
PROFESSOR Tyndall has admitted that
the ehasm between brain action and
Here he says, is a rock upon which
iiaterlahsm must split whenever it pre-
.ehus 70 De a complete philosophy of
the human mind Personal conscious
ness is a demonstration of unity. and
therefore of unit, as certain as the
unity OF the atom; and if the inde
structibility of the one is so overwheIm-
lngly probable as to be almost an axiom
| ha in1
other is no less Overwhelmingly prob
aoie' 1t is difficult, perhaps impossible.
TO conceive how the conscious PERSONAL
lty can exist apart from the material
organism with which it is connected
III our present state Of being; that was
Huxley's diffioultye2but he never pre-
tehoeo 10 maintain that such existence
lis impossible, and II would have been
no contradiction il further study had
led him to believe 1t to be as over
whelming1y probabfe 4as the indestructi-
bility Of the atom.
For generation after the cruelty
ION OF our Lord, the Christian church
had no name at ALL" remarks the New
York Independent" Until they glad
ly accepted the nickname given. at Anti
dists took their name, they called them
serves the way, brethren. the disciples,
the saints, the faithful, the elect or
anything else that occurred to them
as loose and general designation of
the followers of their Lord. We ought
still to he all brethren, all of the one
Way, and every ste4Eistgood that makes
us seem less divided and less loving of
will y 4
the Protestant Episcopal Church finds
some name, which, while it can really
4 designate it, shall not fiaunt it's sep
aration from the oldpLatin Church. nor
Its division in ecclesiastical government
from it's nearer brethren, while yet it
docs not seem to claim any arrogant
land exclusive rights" @
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+ ,'.If there were no other evidence of
the actual resurrection of Christ from
the dead and His appearance among
men in the form In which they were
accustomed to see and know Him, the
marvellous moral transformation which
took place in His doubling, hesitating,
bewildered disciples would establish
the fact on the strongest historical ba-
sis" says the New York Outlook .
mo more striking change has ever
taken place than that which was ef-
fected in the attitude and character
of Peter and the other Apostles. The
difference between Peter before the res
direction and after it was not a diff
ference in degree, but in kind. He
was heneeforth man of different tenn
per, spirit, and character. Something
had happened under his own eyes, with
in his own observation, of his own
knowledge, which had transformed him
from a man of weakness, uncertainty
and frailty into a man of unhesitating
| confidence faith and power. There
was no longer any question in his mind
or in the mind of his disciples; they
had seen the Lord with their own eyes;
they had heard Him speak; they had
touched His hands; they knew that
He had lived again: and, in the knowl-
edge of that fact, they went, heroically,
patiently and with entire abandonment
| of self, their various ways to their
/ various martyrdoms.'
1.-The nationalist inquirer insists, if
| there bp- a Cod and a future" saws the