The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-12-30
ITS VIEW OF IT
DR.. Stoves Description Of Med
ern Professionalism.

The Nephew of Henry Ward
BeeckeP Gives Testimony.
The Rev. Charles Edward Stove
son of the late DR.. c. E. Stowe, and
Harriet Beecher Stowe, and nephew OF
Henry Ward Beecher, is pastor o. the
Central Square Congregational church
at Bridgewater. He bids fair TO give
testimony of the aggressive blood III
Ills veins. and his heritage CT elo-
qnence but in new fashion
Deploring the condition of present.
Gay Professionalism, he says ther. are
in England and America 1875 different
Protestant sects, exclusive of II kinds
e. Baptists and 10 kinds II Wesleyan
Ne thodists.
Professionalism" he says, "is q kind
Of modern Cerberus, with 125 heals all
barking discordantly, and is like the
mob of Ephesus. Thoughtful Chris
tians looking on and beto;d!rg with
sadness this confusion worse con-
founded cannot fail to ask: Did our
TO. d Jesus Christ come to this eart1
L, establish this pitiful m II, of debat-
ing societies, or church Of the l:v-
ing God capable of making itself felt
as pillar and ground Of the faith?' II
Tie Rev. Mr.. Stowe says that there
is sreat unrest and hunger in the
Protestant world today that refuses t.
be a.!ayed by the chipper'ass Of criti-
cal raroquets, or the buxxing Of
az sthe,ic gadfltes The Rev. Ar. Steve
describes the insignificanse Of the Ply
mouth colony in numbers ana material
wealth. and says:
How, then account for the stupen-
deus influence which this THY COM
menwealth has exerted AMI still exerts
GA the history of mankind?
There is one, and only one, possl.
bic answer to this question:
1T vas their devotion to the invis:-
bile, the eternal, the moral order OF
the universe, the glory of God! They
endured, and yet endure, as seeing
Him who is invisible!
"-All the history of mankind for them
tread about His cradle and His cross
and for them there were none of those
unusual benefits and privileges, which
we enjoy in this enlightened age, Of
being Illuminated by the dark wisdom
of the blind moles and bats of a god
less, Christless scholarship that bur-
rows in the holy ground Of. Sinai and
Calvary alike, finding there only COM
mon dirt.
"Mr. Emerson remarks in. his 'sover-
eighty of Ethics:
Luther would cut his hand of
sooner than write theses against the
Pope If he suspected he was bringing
on with all his might the pale mega.
lions of Boston Unitarianism.' In the
same spirit and with the same limita-
lions with which Mr.. Emerson's re.
mark is to be understood by discrimi-
mating readers, say that our Puritan
fathers never would have made the
break that they did with Catholic
Christianity could they have foreseer
as a result thereof the Christless
moribund, frigid, fruitless Protestant
ism that can contribute neither
warmth, life, inspiration nor power t.
lift us above the weight and WEAKNESS
of sin.
THANK God this is not true of al
Protestantism! The great doctrines Of
Catholic Christianity are still be.
lieved and preached in many of oul
churches.
But, alas; it is only too true thai
the heavenly city, which our Puritan
fathers yearned for, and sought with
prayers and tears, has become to many
of their Christless descendants frigit
city Of ice palaces; built of pale mega.
lions, cold, cheerless, shining in pale
winter sun with an evanescent glitter
Of a doubtful and unsubstantial intel
lectual worth.
LAS the icebergs from the frozer
north foated with the ocean currents
only to be melted and disappear in thu
warm waters Of the equator, so shall
these transcendental ice mountains
melt in the warmer currents that tn,
Holy Spirit will bring to human hearts
from our crucified but now risen ant
glorifed Lord.
"The full, rich, glorious Christ o
Catholic Christianity has been dragged
from His throne by these advanced
thinkers (God save the mark!D AM
reduced to beggary. A pale. bloodless
emaciated Syrian ghost, he still diml!
haunts the icy corridors Of this 20tl
century Professionalism, from which tn
doom Of His final exclusion has beef
already spoken.
Then in their boundless ARROGANCE
and self-assertion they turn upol
those of us who still cry with Thoma
before the Risen One. My Lord AM
my God,' and tell us that there is n,
middle ground between their owl