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-
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ok-
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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
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ins—Therefore thosewho.
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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.”
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