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church, looking after the finances, and providing for the temporal wants of the poor and needy in their midst, are apparently satisfied with dispensing the bread and wine on the Lord’s day, and that too sometimes after these emblems have been prepared by other faithful hands/ The voice oTthese di appointed officers is not heard in the practical ministrations of the church, or if heard at all it is ^pushed so far in the back ground |as to be of little benefit to those Jpvhq most need it. This. is not u. od’s order. We believe the churches should see to it that the Scripturally qualified true and tried men of their ‘number are or- A » » 1 B e it d is •y le >y ic ed ict ers jur the j to iers ok- nly com still ock else vith icm. ting 'the ernment, and stich an one is <re- garded by the people as unworthy of further protection by the laws of the nation. Now is not this principle just as true m religion as elsewhere ? When the Lord commands he ex peets prompt and implicit obedience Monday last he said that Calvin tatight baptismal regeneration and the Real Presence as distinctly as Dr. Pusey himself ’ antic jokes leave Mark Twain nowhere. Just what is meant when Calvin is represented as teaching “ baptis- mal regeneration, we are not con- cerned to know. But it may be of they may not go “ agin the govern ment. In this dilemma they have exer- c¡8ed their proverbial ingenuity to find some way to evade the Pope’« precepts and go on with their little dying rebellion in their own way. They have always been taught that k n"ow Iti at lì rflrf their-religion -was. to guide and uíTEÍfi'ílHdfl. If thisliter1 - r«¿ín S'm govern them in their civil and political relatione, and they were right when voting, fighting and assassinating, according to the spiritual directions they received. They have been taught, and pub liclyagitation, that a few words from the priest could and would make a murderer as innocent as a babe. This awful doctrine has been the .jnsRiratio» pf. OTHttt theSiJ' rèSpünstbic matters is taking entirely too Jeep a crime, and has sustained the re offices, and then their work and hold on the, mind of many Chris bellion which is marked, by such voice should be properly respected tians. But we should keep the monster Wickedness as makes 'and sustained by all the congrega will of the King uppermost in our humanity turn pale to read of it. tion. They should at once be ac mind and heart and breathe that And now the Pope writes them a cepted ds the true leaders and spirit of humility and devotion that letter telling them to be good, not representatives of.the whole body. becometh the children of God. to do such things any more, and to On the other hand, the officers This is required of us, and nothing give no money to the leagues that should not only realize the respon short of a full cup of obedience will are engaged in unlawful schemes. sibility they are under to God and. meet the requirement. How shall they get on under such to the body they serve, but they an order ?- should conie boldly to tfle front and’ defections and Comments.- Easily enough. They have assert their authority and fearlessly T he F ig B lossom . — The Pacific, plumply taken the ground that the and lovingly prosecute their respec S&n Francisco, says : church rules the consciencexand the tive and official duties. By such a In one of his letters from Pales life only in religious things : that it ■oncert of action on the part of the tine, Dr. H. Al. Field spoke of “the ha« no business to interefere with ¡Church and her officers the Lord’s fig trees which were found in full politics, and they will just do as ^ork among men would be a blossom.” Some old—New Yorker, they please in their little unpleas power for good and a light to the who is now living in Los Angeles, antness with England, and the Pope »>rld that could not be hid. This called his attention to the fact that . A F ew F acts . The Christian 1 tn the country where the fig grows must confine his attention to his wks the Lord’s plan i in the begin Intelligencer gives us these signifi own business. Certainly they are people do not see blossoms, and ning, and that many of our church wants to know -whether we are to cant statements: right in asserting that there is no es are lacking just at this point, we trust the Bible or observation ? Schools, 141,629 — Retail drink religion in murdering innocent men, have not the least doubt. We Dr. Field has sent for information ing places, 143,115 ; Teachers, 222,- plead then for primitive ground in or accuracy to Dr. Post, of Beirut, 042; Costing, §95,403,000—Tip and as their rebellion is carried on tls matter, and ask the brethren to his fellow traveler, and an ardent plers and drinkers, 4,666,000, who by secret assassination it is true botanist, and is told, as might have paid for liquor $715,575,000. Tjie that politics and murder are inex Jefully consider what we write. been expected, that the blossoms in churches in that same year gave for tricably mixed. And thus it comes ’HE QUESTION OF THE the young fig are on the inside. benevolence $47,636,495. Compare to pass that to be a “ crood Catho Evidently in the passage in these figures. The schools cost DAY. Habakkuk beginning, “ Although ninety-five and a half million dol lic” requires unqualified submission $ Loyalty to all the reasonable de- the fig tree shall not blossom, lars, and the liquor cost at retail to the Pope, while to be a good neither shall fruit be in the vines,” !ands of the king is a virtue too allusion'' was not made to any seven handred and fifteen and a member of the Irish League requires half million dollarts. Such (acts rebellion against the Pope. This ten lacking on the part of many flower-like appearance of the fig in. ought to compel the people to vol puzzles even an Irishman, and it is bjects, and th’s is none the less spring, but solely to the putting untarily ordain a reform. fair to say that the Pope has to ue in Christianity than in tern forth of that which would culminate in fruit. It should be added, too, stand aside till the war is over. iral affairs. Hence the question of that the original word has no ne WISER THAN THE POPE. “ The present distress ” demands e day is not so much one of fact cessary’ reference to floral appear Even the Irish Roman Catholics that the “ good Catholic ” should A ■ one of humble submission to the ance. The word means simply to have risen up to the height of the bin against the Pope, and when the < put forth,” whether the result be «her power. With many pro " buds or leaves or flowers one can grê&t colicêpttôfi tbit they Under- " war is over, the re betfious son wil 1 mised Christians the question is see, or flowers one cannot see. So stand their own business better make his peace with his priest, and it so much what the great King our Los Angeles brother who sits than the Pope does. He has writ get absolution for a price. It is a is commanded, but are we willing under his own ftp tree may read his ten a letter to his dear children in mighty easy religion and works to it obey what we know to be the Bible without disputing cither its the isle of saints, bidding them to a charm in the present emergency. ipreme will ? They presume to accuracy or his own sight. abstain from all illegal measures to —N. Y. Observer. it in judgment on the Law giver, “F unny C alvinism .” —Under beat the British, and not to give nd accept or reject his counsel as The honor of beiDg the oldest this heading the Christian .Intelli their money to promote sedition. may suit, their fancies. Of This command is a stunner. Their English church in America is claim gencer says: •urso such a thing as disloyalty to The funny man of New York occupation is gone if they submit. ed by the old Friend’s Church, in e temporal king against is at the once gov- set Times will be the death of us. On What else do they care to do, if Benton, Va, as treason <wn «* nal principle is not adhered to by Christian people, then they are out at sea not knowing whither they drift. Our watch-word should always be, “ Not our will, Lord, but thine bejlone. This is_the^^rit of our Lord and Master, and is the only principle that will bind us to the Rock of Agés. The spirit of “do as you please” in religious « teach that baptism is for the re mission of sins, and m so doing stood on apostolic ground m bold contrast to much unscriptural teaching on the design of baptism present time. Here are his own words. While speaking of the Lord’s appointing it, he says : For he commands all who believe to be baptized for the remission of 11 ins—Therefore thosewho. -Uaùr. -ai have imagined that baptism is nothing more than a mark or sign by which we prbfess our religion before men, as soldiers wear the insignia of their sovereign as a mark of their profession, have not considered that which was the principal thing in baptism; which is, that we ought to receive it with this promise, “ He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” In this sense we are to understand .whaLis iiaid. .by Paul,, that Christ sanctifies and cleanses the Church “ with the washing of water by the word anil in. another place, that “ according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost and by Peter, that " baptism doth save us.” r I