The Republican journal., 1900-04-05
Bishop Goldman

Says We Are in Religious Darkness and
state OF Lawlessness. Next Generation in
Maine Will Send Out no Able Men.
bishop Goldman of the Maine Episcopal
dlocese delivered a sermon recently at st.
Andrews church in Newcastle that is
likely to attract as much attention as his
recent utterances in Roxbury, Mass, con
corning Maine people. A special to the
Lewiston Journal says:
The Bishop graciously admitted in the
course OF has remarks that the services of
the other churches were sometimes help
full, but he especially extolled the prayer
book OF the Episcopal church as means
of education and grace.
Then, greatly to the surprise of those
who listened, he added that in the other
churches it will be found that extempor-
aneous preaching and prayer services is
often coarse and vulgar.
And yet 1t seems that the bishop is re
ceivlng encouragement from the other
creeds. for he stated in his address that a
Congregational clergyman had said he
was glad to have him, the bishop, come
to Name as 1T was necessary to have some
one to defend the faith
| II 10 HlSu llIue, Sdlu lue blsuoP,
''that the mother church sent some one
ship.
''Hundreds of children in Maine,' said
he, ''have never heard the command
ments."
Most interesting, however. was his ref-
erence to the mere ''man- made'' laws of
the State OF Maine against drinking, dane
/ ing and gaming, and to the diSobedience
of the God made laws against adultery,
etc.
''Maine has sent out many able men, -
said he, "but she will not do So in another
| generation"
These and other statements by the new
bishop have supplied the people of New
castle with topics for lively discussion.
Later Bishop Goldman preached to a
large congregation in st. James Episco-
pal church, Old Town. We quote from a
report of his remarks in the Bangor Com
mercal: whenever new bishop ar
rives in diocese" said Bishop Goldman,
'the old question always arises, why
should the Episcol al church spread? Peo-
pie say that the field is we'll covered by
the other denominations and why should
we push ourselves in.
II will tell you why the Episcopal
church should come into Maine. 1t is be-
cause it is the mother church of the W hole
Anglo Saxon race.
81 have made the statement he said
after short pause, NOW | must prove
it,
Bishop Goldman then sketched the his
tory of the Episcopal church from the
days of Magma Charta back to the medic
| val period. He argued that the church
existed before Magma Charter because
that document states that the church of
England should maintain its customary lib
critics. He explained that many people
thought the church came into existence at
the time of Henry VIII, but that it had
been the same before his time. The only
difference was that its services We're said
in English instead of in Latin At the
time of the Reformation the church was
NOT changed; it was simply ''cleansed of
Roman rust"
can the churches" he said. ''Congre-
gational, Methodist, all formerly came
from the Church of England. This church
comes into Maine to-day as the mother
church, asking her children to come back
and worship God in the same way that
their ancestors did, away back in the mid
The speaker then referred to the book
of common prayer, of its beautiful Eng
hsh, of its refinement, its charity and OF
its clear cut, definite faith
Il believe" he said, ''that the Chris
tians of Maine are longing for clear and
definite faith.
Bishop Goldman then said in substance
that he was glad to see the change that
was going on in the Congregational
church and that it was breaking away
from the doctrines of Calvanism and
which were responsible for turning such
men as Robert lngerso,l., away from Chris-
tianity and which were getting decidedly
out OF date.
MANY of the Congregationalists," he
said, wonder what their faith is, any
way"
! The speaker said that he intended no
reflection on any other Christian body
and that ministers of other sects were do
/ ing grand good work in spreading the
Gospel to the best of their ability. He
, referred to mans laws here in Maine re-
gaIding the use of liquors, and said that
| he believed SO me of Gods laws needed
enforcement much more. Here he spoke
particularly of those in relation to social
evils
''What we need" he said, sis higher
moral Standards