Year: 1874

done with the money spent by this CITY, ana
it should teach the important lesson OF choos-
ing more wisely the men who are to handle
our funds.


Thanksgiving and Other Topics OF


the Religious Press.


In view of the approach of Thanksgiving
Day some of our religious contemporaries have
put forth few reasons why we, as a nation,
should be grateful on Thursday next, and
why we should express that gratitude, not
only by going to church and Offering our
devotions, but by eating turkeys and pumpkin
pies when we return home. The Evangelist
thinks that though the commercial prosperity
of the country has not recovered from the
blow of the financial crisis q year ago, and
many of our mills are standing still and
thousands are idle from lack of employment,
it does not follow that there is no great and
parent calamity. Among the benefits emu
merated by the Evangelist are the arrest of
national extravaganza caused by the imitation of
the currency and the return to the good old vir-
tue of economy. More sober views of life of
business and of the world are taken to-day than
were taken year ago; and this seriousness
is one of the most hopeful signs of slow but
steady national improvement, for which we
should be thankful Large revenues and
abundant harvests are also objects for thanks
giving. To this the LsteHigencer adds the.
peace of the world promoted by the Geneva
arbitration and our own peaceful relations
with all mankind and the allaying of party
strife after the late elections The latelligencer
regrets that the President omitted from his
proclamation any direct recognition of God
and of Christianity, and also regrets the fnan-
cial embarrassments of the country, but hopes
the poor will not be forgotten on Thanksgiv.
ing Day and the winter days to come. The
Hebre,c Leader has pious review of the old
Jewish Thanksgiving Day or Feast or Taber-
nacles. and prays that we may be inclined to
an unselfsh, contented and thankful temper,
which is at once medicine, feast, an orna-
ment and protection. The Jetoish MESSENGER
sorrows that the Thanksgiving dinner and
family reunion should compel the religious
idea to take secondary place in this celebra-
tion. It recommends the Jewish programme
of charity first and turkey after.


The Independent discusses the relationship
Of righteousness to religion and agrees with
President Fairchild that conversion is not
having an experience but is the beginning of
godly life; that righteousness is the better
part of religion-its essence, whether professed
by angel or man. The Christian Union tells
US what faith is and what it does 1t is not
an exceptional thing it is by faith we are
saved, all who are saved. And how does faith
save us? Not by being o substitute for right
conduct, but by being the supreme help to
right conduct Faith is the consciousness of
God. The man who is without faith is not
therefore without God No man can put
asunder what God hath joined together-his
own life and the divine life that supports it.
The Christian at Work makes the HERALD s
Central Park article of recent date the text
for sermon on the snakes, panthers and
lions innumerable which roam or lurk in
every street in this city in the shape of bad
books and unclean newspapers and it calls
upon parents to see that none of them find
refuge in their children's trunks. The
Baptist Union discourses on the unity and
fellowship of faith, which, it thinks, is more
potent, precious and enduring than organiza-
tions or names. 1t goes on to suggest true
basis of union among Baptists- life in
renewal Of the Holy Ghost. Sectarianism is
q matter of feeling, it says, and not of convic-
tion-the outgrowth Of carnality and not of
loyalty to Christ.


The Tablet touches lightly and morally the
recent priestly scandals, and defends itself for
not denouncing those erring teachers of it's
faith. The Great Master would not do so,
and the Tablet wants to be like Him. The
Pilot Boston) publishes two important arti-
cles, on which it commemorative pastoral
address of the Irish bishops on modern
materialism and the controversy between
Archbishop Manning and Mr.. Gladstone. The
Uurchnan urges upon its readers the neces-
sity of providing for the poor this winter The
Church Journal has an able and elaborate arti-
Gle ON dogma and Rationalism," showing
the absurd conclusions of the latter on the
former. Church and State has undertaken the
difficult task of reconciling the diverse state
ments Of Bishop Coke and DR.. Seymour. The
Baptist Weekly presents the lesson of a life
drawn from the recent death Of the Rev.
Charles Vince, of Birmingham, England, a
Baptist minister, who won the esteem and
love of his brethren of all denominations who
knew him. The Christian Advocate presents
the claims of Methodist missions to it's read
ers, and the Examiner and Chronicle discusses
the propriety of taxing church property, and,
adopting the arguments OF another, it is
opposed to such taxing.


MAYOR HAvEMEYER recommends the citizens