WKST SHORE.
UiUlHtO tVCAT iTU0T.
scarcely a Presbyterian pulpit of note in America from
which the Presbyterian creed is preached, and why
the church should cling to the empty words while di
carding the doctrines they express is a puzzle to men
of liberal minds. From Presbyterian pulpits to-day
u mamuku i"Iii-t, emanate doctrinal sermons that come far closer to
. m!tlttVfS& i... 1 cJSVSi I tt&ffife Cnivcrsalism than to Presbyterianism. In fact, the
. . . Westminster confession is practically dead in the
ik, 4 i ' '' church, ami can only be found in theological seminar-
uMcai'Tio RATitiictir icfl where a,tract crecd8 are tauht and humanity it
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irci m t "t'' y,v1 ,ht New ork syndicates are being formed to furnish
mjj 7-,.ui will nMUrtturwd unit., tt.mp.htvt 6 -u
U u m r-"c dull interior villages like Chicago, Kansas City, Louis-
Tht Win Smoi off.r. thaOMt Medium for Advert! ville and Omaha, pictorial humorous weeklies-a gort
ra of any publication en tht Pacific Coast. 0f "patent inside" affair, though brilliant. By the
MMuni-r, ivi.rury u, Ymm. managers of this syndicate it is stated, with customary
- metropolitan assumption, that only in New York can
pVKUY few fiiotithn some cleric " sound a note of pictorial weeklies be successfully produced. Yet we
r alarm " almt tin? growing jiower of the Catho- beg to say that St. Imi Life beautiful as she is
licrhunh in America. The fart that the Catho- young successfully contradicts the above statement
lim are outstripping Protestant in the race for mem- Wkst Smoke has been offered this syndicate fun, but
Urship imd txt sjecially alarm those who do not feci prefers to lie original, if not so brilliant. Its readers
lint the downfall of a particular creed or dogma can depend upon it that whatever appears in West
tix urn a general cataclysm. N matter how fast that Smoke is neither warmed over nor being given a sec-
hurt )i may grow, the great My of frr and intelli- ond birth, and that it does not simultaneously appear
gent think ri matiy of them from the Catholic ranks in the San Francwo Whangihmtte nor the New Odani
ii jro iiijj faster, and the- will see that there is no Silf-SiliUfr. Wkst Shore will at least be original.
union of church and state in this country. No one
ran bur watched the cmirse of events the past score If the Montana legislature remain in its disorgan
if year without noticing how jrrceptibly the Catho- ized state until its existence terminates by law on the
lien have broken away from the absolute domination 2"th of the month; if the senate decline to receive
of tin-church in uvular affair. The time will never either set of claimants for seats; if Governor Toole
ntinf when the I'mtl States will U at the UxV and appoint two democrats; if the senate decide thai the
call of the .j.e. a the Protectant come Uddly for- failure to elect has created a vacancy such as is con
ward and stand on the platform of no bible in the templated in the law authorizing the governor to ap
k1i"iU and no ue of public money f.,r religious pur- point, then Montana will have two democratic sens
.rf 'ithrnl.nrtly, by appropriation, or indirectly, tors, and the whole question will bo settled until the
by ririiipiioii from taxation and they will find a next election. This is a long string of "ifs," but they
iiim ,f Cuihulir ready to stand w ith them. If there arc all probable except the last, which, to say the
I any danger .f Catholic usurpation in America it can least, is doubtful.
It f.uj-ht U ttrr with secular than sectarian weajton.
Germany is adding another Iward to the high
It hiu the San Francisco Presbytery i op- fence aWut the empire for keeping the people at home.
rd to a rrviMon of the rr by a vote of 27 to 22. Too many want to come to America to suit the idea
The prof. in the theological seminary decided the of that military desjotism. Human nature is so con-
jUfttMi by voting solidly in the negative. They have stitutcd that the higher the fence the more fwple try
tudid rrtl, taught crM. hnath.d the air of crml to climb it, and Germany will find that her young men
an I ha it fr their daily meat and drink till it ha will now become more eager than ever to view the pin-
Uomr as iuu h a part of then, a the organ of their feathers under the American eagle's wing.
Mir On the other hand the men in the pulpit,
wh tuutr in contact with humanity, who b arn An English syndicate has purchased the rublrr in-
that there ii t Frrat mulutude of the brightest and terest in America for ll(),0(K),0(JO. Now they can
Ul the earth to whom creed in it ancient purity make a rubU r blanket to cover the entire country at
u frpu.mt. are pavitating away fn,w i There i once, instead of buying it up in chunks, as formerly.