The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-30
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
EXPRESSIONS FROM VARIOUS
RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS. /.
The Religious Thought Of the Day
as Expressed in the Sec
tartan Press.

| tartan Press.
"In striking opposition to the Ro-
man Church, as illustrated by the de-
crees of the Council of Trent, the An
4 glican neves evinces concern for views
that may, have appealed at particular
times to large numbers of her adher-
ents,'' says the New York "Churchman"
! (P. Ed. LAS body catholic as We'll
in spirit as in name, she is never con-
/ cerned to preserve her individual at
| titude in the face. of ascertained truth.
Her function, indeed, is that of the pre-
server and interpreter of truth. Con-
sequently, she puts truth first. Had
this view of the teaching office marked
every period of the church. the most
futile and impertinent dicta that have
discredited theology since the dawn OF
the modern scientific spirit, would have
been avoided This applies pre-emi-
nently to the church's attitude toward
Holy Scripture She insists always that
the incompatible library of the divine
oracles' was written as holy men OF
old were moved by the Holy Spirit. Her
declaration Of this inspiration as fact
has never wavered. In the most un.
|
her spiritual teaching presupposes the
divinity of the written Word of God.
| Even her Book of Common Prayer,
which echoes the doctrines of Holy
Scripture does this so scrupulously
that it is estimated seven out OF eight
words uttered during an ordinary serv-
ice are those of the Authorized Version.
No body of Christians has ever mazda
it's thought and it's worship such an in
tegral part of public worship
| X
rs Sunday to be in no sense fore
taste of the heavenly world to which
we profess to be hastening?" asks tina
New York observer" (Pres.). rs it
merely a day for heavy dinners and
more or less aesthetic enjoyment, in a
| half operate entertainment in the
| churches? Is Sunday to be mere day
| for ones best Clothes or for ones turn
| out in the parks and on the boulevards!
Are we to avoid all the most serious
books and all the most serious
thoughts? Is everything that tells OF
our weakness and of the shortness OF
| human life so much fanatacism? Is H.
| a gloomy thought that we are seeking
another country, even as heavenly? Are
| the harps that we shall then tune a
myth? Has the end of the nineteenth
century revealed it as fact that
Scripture is SO much poetry, soothing
opiate when it tells of the joys of
Heaven? Is it a mere gloomy delus1on
when it tells of the doom of the wick
ed? Is the church prepared to sound a
final truce with those who have stead
| tasty tried to bend it to their easy
| going purposes? Even if it were argu,
ing on mere polite and sociological
| grounds, the whole voice of ancient and
modern history would sound with one
note to the effect that self-reStrafnt, the
| fight against temptation, is the sole
safeguard of any individual or set of
individuals. Rest and abandon are diff
| ferent things. You will hear nine men
pleading for licenses where you will
hear one pleading for more rest. We
have downed Puritanism in this coun,
try. but at a fearful cost. Many a pre-
mature grave is being dug on Monday
for the man who would take no Puri-
tanism on Sunday"
B There are a few principles which
seem to US quite clear says the New
| York Outlook 1.-The first is that the
mere facts that Christian science and
! faith cure have organized as churches.
and taken on a religious form, and are
inbued with quasi-religious spirit, do
not exempt them from the operation of
the law. Violation of the law is not
made less a. violation because the sane
ton of science is claimed for it. A
Mormon cannot claim a right to polyg'
| amy nor a pagan to perform human
sacrifice because his conscience requires
this of him. Religious liberty is the
| liberty of every man to maintain what
attitude he sees fit toward the Deity
| without interference from his fellow
| men; it is not liberty to do or omit
| what he will in his relations to his fell
lowmen because his religion demands
| or forbids the action. The second is
that well-settled usage, incorporated in
| the law, forbids the practice of healing
| by persons who have not been licensed
! by the State. And the practice of heal.
| ing does not necessarily involve giving
| drugs; often, and to an increasing ex,
| tent, the medical practitioner simply
| gives counsel. To tempt to cure disease
as profession and for pay, by what,
ever means, continues medical prac.
| tice. Under the laws of our States as
| they now exist unlicensed practitioners
may be prosecuted The third is that
the community has the right and the
duty to afford protection to little chill
dren against even the neglect of their
parents, and to protect the community
| against contagious disease by compel,
| ing the observance of those precautions
which the general judgment believes to
| be essential
1--WE believe" says the New York
Christian Intelligencer' (Ref), with
DIR. Clark. it's founder, that it the
Christian Endeavor Society is more
than a society, yielding only the frothy
product of beardless eXuberance'; it is
| a 'providential movement one which
God has sent to the kingdom for such
a time as this to answer theoretr1cal
atheism and infidelity in the world, and
| to counteract practical atheism and in
! fidelity in the church; to substitute for
the I don't know of the agnostic, and
| the I doubt of the skeptic, the 1
know whom I have believed, and am
persuaded of the Christian, and SO
effectually as to put the blush of
shame on the cheek of the doubling
| and unbelieving; also to present an
! ocular demonstration which cannot be
controverted, more potent and convinc
| ing than learned disquisition or any
| logical array of philosophical argu-
nient, that the Christianity of Christ
! is not yet doomed, as some have the
| effrontery to assert it is; that it has
not even yet seen it's best days; that
it's creeds and teachings and institu-