Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-28
FOR SUNDAY READING.
All Sorts OF Opinions.
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cREEp AND rAITH..

CREED AND FAITH.
Belief is purely intellectual act.
Faith is also an act of the will. We
look at the things which are unseen.
They are not forced upon us; we turn
our attention deliberately toward them.
This is the difference between creed.
and confession of faith. A creed is
simply a statement of an intellectual
opinion; a confession of faith Is the ac-
ceptance of Godfrey. Lyman Abbott.
AUSTRALIAN CHURCH SYSTEM.
Living Churchill
A letter frcm Australia complains of
the feeble way in which the church sys-
TEN is maintained on that continent 1t
says that no Australian priest keeps
the yearly round of fast and festival
with due regard to the traditions Of the
Catholic church. Mention is made of
custom of shortening Evensong, and
intermingling many solos and carols. all
of which is supposed TO be signed OF
High Church." The priest who has
smoking concerts, outdoor excursions,
and other like frivolities, is supposed to
be a man of great activity, and IS set
down as an extreme high churchman
One clergyman writes verses which he
has sung in his congregation. On Christ
mas day, two such poems were substi-
tuted for the Venite and Benedictus.
The writer thinks that. on the whole,
they are not on the right path. They
require more sound doctrine and better
attention to the services OF the church.
II may be that this correspondents
statements are too sweeping. We trust
there are some brighter spots even in
Australia.
MoRMONs IN NORTH CAROLINA.
LCongregationalistl
The North Carolina Presbyterian
makes the statements that there are
| fifty more Mormon missionaries in the
state than there are Presby terrain min
listers all told, and that there is pos
sibility that there shall at an early day
be as many Mormons in North Caro-
lima as Presbyterians." Testimony
comes from Utah also that the Mormons
there continue to practice polygamy and
to defy the laws OF the United States
and the pledges on the strength OF
which Utah was admitted to statehood.
The tenor of the independents recent
symposium on the subject was to the
same effect. We have no apprehension
that polygamy will extend itself much
beyond the membership of the Mormon
lschurch 1t is too revolving to the Amer
lean mind and heart. But the Mormon
example of bold and deliberate defiance
OF law and good faith is a grave matter
and should be rebuked and punished
by the national government. II this De
possible.
NOT FAVORABLE TO CHURCH So
CIETIES.
The question is up nsthe Methodist
church of Canada, and in the last issue
OF the Christian Guardian, the official
organ Of that church, one minister
writes: After some years experience
as a pastor, am ready to wish every
church go to had no Christian En-
deavor or Epworth League. Without
| intending 1t they seem to me to be a
brake on the religious progress OF
church,. And the editor subjoines this
m.
I'VE hope that this pastors experience
Is rot general. He does his duty by
| telling the facts as he has found them.
Let every preacher who has had expe-
rlenca which is of value to the whole
church, write tersely and fearlessly his
knowledge of the value OF our EpMorth
league, as English pastors have OF their
Christian Endeavor societies In the
British Weekly" The subject is also
discussed in the Wesleyan OF last week,
the excellent official organ OF the Meth
Iodist church in Nova Scotia. and one
writer observes: 1.-THE article from
Zion's Herald concerning the Epworth
League and Christian Enedeayor So
cieties gives form to questions which
have OF late been floating In many
|sminds: for nc thoughtful person can
have failed to notice the sad falling on
lin the revival energy of the churches
during the last eight or ten years.
HE WILL PREACH WITHOUT PAY.
Rev. j. e. Conant, pastor of the Rog-
ers Park Baptist church, has announced
his intention to preach without pay. He
has reached the conclusion that paid
ministry Is unscriptural and conse-
quently wrong. Opposition was mani
tested to his plan by the practical bust
ness men Of the congregational. Plans
are on foot for the erection Of new
sanctuary during the summer and to
y
seemed like ending all hopes for new
building. But the pastor was obdu-
rate. He said the apostles had 10 as
surance of compensation other than
stripes and imprisonment, and It the
church leaned on prayer for support in
the days of its beginning 1t could DO so
now. He presented an outline Of the
principles he had adopted and in the end
they we're approved. They are as fol-
lows:
The pastor shall receive no stated SAL
|ary.
Ask no man for a farthlng, but pray
God for support.
Lay up no treasure for yourself nor
your church.
Let us no man anything. {,
Let US owe no man anything.
WORD CHRISTIAN STRUCK OUT.
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