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FATHER YORKE
ON H. W. BOWMAN.
The Chancellor's Caustic
Denunciation of the
A. P. A. Man.
"UNSPEAKABLE WRETCH"
Declares There Is "No Argument
for Him or His but the
Lash."
SPIRITED REPLY TO WENDTE.
Father Yorke Discusses at Length the
Charges of Intolerance Against
His Church.
In reply to the last letter of H. W. Bow
man the llev. Father Yorke writes as fol
lows:
January 24.
To the Editor of the Call— Dear Sir: " It is
with the greatest reluctance that I refer to a
letter which appears in your columns this
morning. That letter is signed H. W. Bow
man. Bowman is a minister of the gospel and
spokesman for the American Protective Asso
ciation.
Concerning him I stated some time ago that
while I was prepared to answer argument with
argument I was not prepared to descend to ob
scenity. The American people are not yet
ready to believe that our institutions must be
defended with tilth.
Hence I have paid no attention to the docu
ments which have appeared over the signature
of H. W. Bowman." The few arguments hid
den away in them have been already used by
others, and in answering others I shall have
an opportunity to notice all that is worth no
ticing. But no one can expect me to descend
to the level of Bowman. My duty does not
compel me to go down into the sewers.
I would have continued to ignore him, but
his letter this morning is so foul that lam
driven to protest. I had hoped that even the
A. P. A. realized the unspeakable infamy of
its slanders on the sisters of the Catholic
church. I had hoped that this City would
never again be disgraced by such a manifesta- I
tion of indecency. But the representatives of j
bigotry learn nothing and are impervious to !
shame- •. *v -
Let Americans look on the following sen- j
tence and learn what manner of men are they
who attack us: "Chastity in a bishop, priest or j
nun means the license of lust under the guise j
of celibate abstinence."
I cannot trust myself to write about the au
thor of such a charge. Let it stand in its shame '
the condemnation of A. P. -ism written by the j
representative of the A. P. A.
My duty is clear. There is only one course
for me to pursue. I cannot even appear to be
engaged in a controversy with such au uu- !
spea table wretch. I have been willing to ex- !
plain the doctrines of my church and to de- :
lend her teachings, but if this controversy is
to be made the means of slandering the best,
the purest, the noblest women ou God's earth,
then I stop it here and now.
The name of H. W. Bowman shall never j
strain, under any provocation, pass ny pen.
For him and for his there is no argument but [
the lash. Yours, truly, P. C. Yobke.
CHURCH AND STATE.
Rev. Chancellor Yorka Continues
His Reply to Rev. Dr. Wendte.
The Rev. Father Yorke contributes the
following in answer to Dr. Charles W.
Wendte:
January 24, 1896.
To the Editor of the CaU— Dear Sip. : In my
last letter 1 drew the attention of your readers
to the persecution of the Catholic church i.i
Germany during the "seventies." That perse
cution was commenced by Bismarck at a time
when the German Catholics had given every
evidence of their loyaltytotheState. In it he was
aided and abetted by tne polysyllabic professors
whom Dr. Wendte calls to the stand to witness
against us. The distinguished defender of
American ideas then, witn his usual inconsist
ency, proceeds arm in arm with the persecu
tors <rt the nineteenth century to denounce
those who sanctioned persecution in the thir
teenth.
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.
The story of man's inhumanity to man is a
long story and a sad one. No chapter thereof
is longer or sadder than that which tells of
Fersecution carried on in the name of religion.
I for one would gladly leave that chapter
closed, for I do not think it helpful to the
higher life to dwell overmuch on the barbarity
of our ancestors. Still, the story of persecution
is one of these things which will not down. If
not openly spoken of it is hinted at and mut
tered and whispered. Hence it is better to
face the truth at once fairly and squarely. We
Catholics have nothing to hide eitner in our
doctrines or in our history. Especially in this
question of persecution we need not iear a
comparison with other denominations. lam
glad, therefore, that Dr. Wendte's argumenta
tive drag-net has brought up this matter. We
might as well examine it now as at any other
time.
WHAT BELLARMINE SAID. - - : ,
As far as 1 can make out Dr. Wendte's object
In introducing the charge of persecution is to
prove that the Catholic church is necessarily
Intolerant, and that if we had tne power to
day we would re-establish the inquisition. He
sums up our alleged doctrine in a quotation
which he ascribes to Bellarmine: "Heretics
when strong are to be commended to God;
when weak, delivered to the executioner." I
then designated that alleged quotation as a
"monstrous sentiment," and I repeat now
that it in no way expresses the practice of
Catholics or Catholic nations even in the most
Intolerant times.
In the first place let me remark that there is
no doctrine of the Catholic religion which in
culcates the duty of persecution for conscience
sake. Evidently Dr. Wendte has searched high
and low for such doctrines and all tne pas
sages he has been able to produce are :
, (1) A sentiment attributed to Bellarmine. .
(2) An answer from Aquinas that heretics
may be handed over to the civil power.
(3) A sentence from Plus IX that the so
called lioerty of conscience should not be pro
claimed by law.
PR. WENDTE'S TACTICS.
Now, if Dr. Wendte were fair and anxious to
do justice to Catholics, he would have first
consulted our theologians who deal with these
points before accusing us of a narrowness un
worthy of our citizenship. He snrelv cannot
be ignorant that we profess to be loyal to the
constitution and to American ideas. He surely
is not unaware that we declare that we are op
posed heart and soul to persecution. If he
knows anything about us he knows that we
t.rirte . ourselves on being the pioneers of re
ligious freedom on this continent. Therefore
1 say that if Dr. Wendte simply sought the
truth about us he would not have condemned
os on such slender testimony. We have a
right to claim belief for our words until our
words are proved to be worthless.
> We have a right to that credence which one
man unhesitatingly gives to another until the
lie is made evident. But Dr. Wendte refuses
to believe our words. He goes to an encycli
cal, a Catholic commentary on which ho has
never read. He goes to Bellarmine, a volume
of whose writings he has never seen. He goes
to the thirteenth century and to a paragraph
out of Thomas Aquinas In order to show that
cither we do not know the doctrines of our
church or that we are lying about them. Now
I indignantly deny that we are ignorant of
Catholic belief. I assert that I. know my re
ligion as well as Dr. Wendte knows his, and I
assert, moreover, that there is not a dogma of
that religion which inculcates the doctrine of
persecution for conscience sake.
Let me ask the fair-minded Americans who
have been following this controversy who is
the more likely to know what is the Catholic
teaching— Dr. Wendte or I? In many cases I
have shown that he is entirely unacquainted
with Catholic writers, and that he relies alto
gether on the publications of men whose hos
tility to the church was undisguised. Cer
tainly if I wish tor information about the
character of ray neighbor I do not go. to his
enemy. Dr. Wendte, however, confines him
self entirely to our enemies, and from them he
has learned all he knows about us. Hence I
claim that bis views must necessarily be dis
torted and tbat his descriptions of our tenets
must always err from the truth.
THE TESTIMONY OF HISTORY.
Indeed. Mr. Editor, if Dr. Wendte had re
membered thehistories he read at school he
might well have hesitated before charging us"
with intolerance. He might have remembered
that the first asylum for religious liberty on this
continent was founded by Catholics. He might
have backward cast his eye and have seen the
Quaker harried in New England and the Puri
tan hunted In Virginia turning their gaze to
that home of peace which Baltimore had built
on the bauks of the Potomac. In that colony
Catholics were supreme. The lord proprietor
had been given- an absolute grant ci the
province' to manage it as his private estate. He
possessed all legislative and executive powers,
was free from taxation and was bound by no
stipulation or understanding to enforce tolera
tion. Yet this Catholic and the; Jesuits who
were with him not only did not persecute Prot
estants, but offered a home to men of all creeds
who would consent to live in harmony and
agree to differ.
Men who are unacquainted with the tenor of
Lord Baltimore's grant insinuate that policy
alone urged him to concede toleration. If he
had confined his good will to Catholics and
Episcopalians this theory might not hick veri
similitude. But what prevented Baltimore
from persecuting the Puritans or the Quakers?
The English Government showed them no
mercy, why should he? Indeed the more we
study the circumstances of the times tha more
we are convinced that it was solely to his own
liberality and to the liberality of the Catholics
who accompanied him that we owe the glori
ous example which Catholic Mary be
queathed to posterity.
This is still more certain when we remember
that Baltimore, of his own volition, insisted on
the voluntary system in supporting churches.
He might easily have endowed the church
with large tracts of land or taxed the people
for its support. These methods were familirr
to the other colonies; but Baltimore would
have none of them. When asking for priests
to accompany his expedition he frankly in
formed the general of the Jesuits that he
would offer no subvention. The Jesuits ac
cepted these terms, and can claim that tney
inaugurated on this continent the American
system ot voluntary support of the church.
PROTESTANT TESTIMONY.
Says Lecky- in his "Rationalism in Europe,"
vol. ii: "Hopital and Lord Baltimore, the
Catholic founder of Maryland, were the two
first legislators who uniformly upheld religious
liberty when in power; and Maryland con
tinued the solitary refuge for the oppressed of
every Christian sect till the Puritans succeeded
in subverting the Catholic rule, when they
basely enacted the whole penal code against
those who had so nobly and so generously
received them."
Does Dr. Wendte forget the glorious testi
mony borne by the American historian, George
Bancroft, to Lord Baltimore and his little
colony of Maryland? Has he ever read that
"Calvert deserves to be ranked among the most
wise and benevolent lawgivers of all ages ; that
he was the first to place the establishment of
popular institutions with the enjoyment of
liberty of conscience; that tiie asylum of the
Papists was the spot where, in a remote corner
of the world, on the banks of rivers which, as
yet, had hardly been explored, the mild for
bearance of a proprietary adopted religious
freedom as the basis of the state; that there
the early star of religious liberty appeared as
the harbinger of day; that there the Roman
Catholics, who were persecuted by the laws of
England, were sure to find a peaceful asylum
in the quiet harbors of the Chesaspeake; and
that there, too, Protestants were sheltered
from Protestant intolerance."
TOLERATION IN IRELAND.
If Dr. Wendte knew the history of Ireland
he might have been more careful in imputing
intolerance to the Catholic church in America,
which traces its main stream back to the
Catholic church in Ireland. Whatever may be
said about the Catholics of England or France
or Spain, the Catholics of Irish descent can :
hold up their hands to heaven and call the
world to . witness that they are free from
blood. During 200 years the Catholics were
three times in the ascendency. Each period
01 power had been preceded by a period of
relentless persecution on the part of Protes
tants. Did they retaliate? Let Protestants
answer Dr. Wendte. .
Leland, a Protestant historian, writes of the
reign of Mary when in London the victims of
Cranmer had turned upon him and were met- ;
ing unto him the same measure he had
measured unto them, "Such was the spirit of
toleration that many English families, friends
to the reformation, took refuge in Ireland and
there enjoyed their opinions without molesta- j
tion."
It is a matter of history that the Catholic ,
merchants of Dublin rented and furnished :
seventy-four houses to shelter the fugitives
from Bristol alone and not only housed them,
but provided for ail their wants. Alter Mary's
death these fugitives were returned to Eng
land at the expense of their Catholic hosts.
Lecky, who i* a Protestant, says In his "Eng
land in the Eighteenth Century": "Among
the Catholics, at least, religious intolerance
has never been a prevailng vice. In spite of ]
the fearful calamities of the Reformat it is a
memorable fact that not a single Protestant
suffered for his religion in Ireland during all
the period of the Marian persecutions in Eng
land."
Cooke Taylor, another Protestant historian,
says in the "History of the Civil War in Ire
land":
"It is but justice to this maligned body (the
Irish Catholics) to add that on the three occa
sions of their obtaining the upperhand they
never injured a single person in life or limb
for professing a religion aifferent from their
own." ?_:"•-%-
If Dr. Wendte had kept track of contempo
rary history in Ireland as closely as he has
kept track of contemporary history in Ger
many he might have heard of the testimony of
Earl Spencer, who a few years ago was Lord
Lieutenant.
I have had some experience in Ireland. I
have been there for over eight years, and I
don't know of any specific instance where
there has been religious intolerance on the
part of the Roman Catholic against the Protes
tant fellow-countrymen. But religious intol
erance has been shown, and where? It has
been shown in Ulster, where more than half
the population belong to the Protestant faith.
I believe the Protestants have Deen the chief
cause of keeping up the animosity.
CATHOLIC TOLERANCE.
If Dr. Wendte had considered the history of
toleration better he might not have been so
quick to accuse us of illiberality. He might
have read that in 1549 Sigismund II proclaimed
in Catholic Poland that the sword should not
settle religious differences and thr.t the toler
ance then decreed wes confirmed by the pacta
conventa of 1572. He might have noted tin;t
there is nota Catholic country in Europe which
had not granted religious toleration years be
fore the tirst Protestant country practiced it.
And thinking of all these things he might
have been suspicious of the authorities which
led him to believe that persecution is part of
our creed, and he might have been more
charitable in interpreting the detached para
graphs which are brought to make us intoler
ant in spite of ourselves.
;/. -7 y THOMAS AQUINAS
Now, Mr. Editor, let me explain as briefly as
possible the doctrinal attitude of the church j
toward religious liberty. In the first place I
will remark that Catholics believe that Christ
iounded a society to teach the truth which he
revealed. This truth Is something definite,
and no Catholic is at liberty to accept part of
it and reject the rest. Those who do so are
called heretics, from a Greek word meaning to
pick and choose.
Of course when a Catholic begins to exercise
this process on the dogmas of the faith he ren
ders himself liable to excommunication. He
is a member of a society with certain rules and
regulations, and as long as he does not wish to
observe these rules and regulations the so
ciety has a right to expel him. This right is
used by every Protestant church in the United
Slates, and cannot -be denied to the Catholic
church alone.
Hence we see that the proper punishment
prescribed for heresy by Catholic teaching is
expulsion or excommunication.
Now in the middle ages the civil law took
cognizance of the eases of those who had been
expelled trom the church for heresy. Ido not
defend this provision of the civil law. I have
never yet seen a Catholic author who did. It
was introduced first by the Roman Emperors
and was carried out in spite of the protests of
the church. At the end oi the fourth century
the Spaniard Prescellean, who had been ex
communicated for teaching heretical doctrine
and practicing acts of licentiousness, appealed
to »be Emperor. He met with the unexpected
answer of a sentence of death. Against this
sentence St. Ambrose of Milan and St. Martin
of Tours lifted up their voices and to them be
longs the glory of having ended the persecu
tion.
For centuries we hear no more of such pun
ishments. The church was at peace, occupied
in the splendid work of christianizing and
civilizing the wild Teutonic tribes, of mitigat
ing the savagery of invading hordes, of provid
ing teaching for the young and practicing in
solitary wastes the hardlaoofsof pioneers of
industry. The first modern law decreeing
death as a penalty for heresy was promulgated
by the Emperor Frederick 11, who, strange to
say, is a particular friend of Mr. John S. Hit
tell, and is pined by Dr. Wendte because he
was opposed by the wicked Popes. In 1220
this monarch declared that he would use the
sword received by him from God against the
enemies of the faith, and he ordered that all
heretics in Lombardy should be burned or de
prived of their tongues. In 1231, publishing
his constitution for the kingdom of Sicily, the
same Frederick placed . heresy "among other
public crimes, and ranked it as more grievous
than high treason."
Those who imagine that these laws were
inspired by the church will do well to remem
ber that this Frederick II through all his reign
was in a chronic state of excommunication.
Perhaps there was no emperor during the
: middle ages less amenable to Papal authority
than this same Frederick. ' *' '.• - -■ . •
Now, let us bear in mind that it was after
this law that St. Thomas wrote. He was him
self a subject of Sicily,' and naturally the
question arose what was to be done with
heretics. -■:■ » •
.The church alone had the power to excom
municate them, and many thought that the
church should not use this power now that
tnt law seized on them at once and put them,
to death. II Dr. Wendte had not confined him
self to the two paragraphs he paraded belore
the public, but had read the introduction to
these paragraphs in the light of history, he
would have understood what St. Thomas
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1896.
I taught. That teaching was his private opin
[ ion and is in no sense a dogma of the' church.
! It comes to this that although the civil • power
will put heretics to death on excommunica
tion the church must not refrain from excom
municating them for that reason. He
does not say . that the 'Church com
mands heretics to be put to death; he
does not say that the church should
put them to death, but he believes that their
extirpation by the civil power should not be a
reason why the church should refrain from
excommunicating them. PApy
Another point which Dr. Wendte does not
touch upon but which history might teach
him is that heresy during tbe middle ages was
always associated with rebellion or licentious
ness. Ido not think that he would care to be
identified with some of the peculiar fanatics
who flourished in those days. Let us now turn
back a few pages and see what St. Thomas
thinks of those whose heresy was not a
new revolt against the constituted authori
ties, but an inheritance from their parents.
In the tenth question Aquinas discusses the
cases of Jews and infidels who were then in a
small miuoritv in Christendom. lie lays
down the teaching that the children of Jews
and of other non-Christians should not be
baptized against the will of their parents be
cause such action is opposed to natural jus
tice.
lie teaches that Jews and other non-Chris
tians should not be forced to embrace the
faith, and he asserts without any ambiguity
that these sectaries should have full liberty to
worship Hud as their fathers before them.
Surely this teaching does not look like the al
leged quotation from Bellarmine, "When
heretics are strong they are to be commended
to God, when weak to the executioner."
Surely, it is not fair to draw from this the
conclusion that St. Thomas was a bloodthirsty
inquisitor, going around seeking whom he
might devour. He lived in an age when social
conditions and civil laws were far different
from what they are now. He spoke for those
times not for ours, and let us remember that
in this matter the church always stood for
mercy. The states which were most under her
influence were precisely the states where per
secution was the least felt. . «-\ - . :--: •■
, THE PRESENT DOCTRINE. .'..;..:
But Dr. Wendte produces Gregory XVI and
Tins IX to prove that religious liberty is
forbidden by the church. Now let me say
right here that Dr. Wendte has not taken the
trouble to find out what these Popes meant by
religious liberty. He might have become a
little suspicious when he saw this liberty
characterized as "so called." There is liberty
and liberty. There is a religious liberty con
demned by the United States and precisely the
same religious liDerty is condemned by the
Pope. Every constitution which grants free
dom of worship limits that freedom. There
are certain acts which are always excepted
from the protection of the law. Doctrines
which eventuate in licentiousness or which
injure the peace and dignity of the state are
not tolerated. Within the past few years all
the preachers in America sanctioned religious
persecution in the case of the Mormons be
cause of polygamy. v.'i-"" 1
.When, therefore, the Tope condemns the so
called liberty of conscience he condemns it in
the seuse that every man has a right to set
forth the plea of conscience in defense of all
his acts. No Slate in the wide world would
accept such a plea. Are we to blame the Pope
for plainly saying so?
"■ROTESTANT PERSECUTION.
In conclusion let me remind Dr. Wendte that
neither, he nor any Protestant should speak
too loudly of religious liberty. Says Hallam,
the eminent historian:
Persecution is the deadly original sin of the
Reformed churches, which cools every honest
man's zeal for theircause in proportion as his read
ing becomes more extensive.— (t'onstlt. Hist., vol.
i, chap, ;i.) ;■-.",/ /■:;.■/.
Hallam's ideas are indorsed by Lecky, who,
after speaking of the persecution of heretics
by Catholics, writes: ;•""..{•
But what shall we say of a church that was but a
thing of yesterday, a church that bad as yet no
service to show. 110 claims upon the gratitude of
mankind, a church that was by profession the
creature of private judgment, and was
In reality generated by the intrigues of a
corrupt court, which, nevertheless, suppressed
by force worship that multitudes; deemed neces
sary to their salvation, and by all her organs and
with all her energies persecuted those who clung
to the reiigion of their fathers? What shall
we say of a religion which comprised at
most but a fourth part of the Christian
world and which the first explosion .of pri
vate Judgment had shivered into countless sects,
which was, nevertheless, so pervaded by the spirit
of dogmatism that each of these sects asserted its
distinctive doctrines with the same confidence and
persecuted with the same unhesitating virulence
[defending herself against innovation and aggres
sion, Mr. Leckyj, as the church which was vener
able with the homage of more than twelve cen
turies?
What shall we say of men who, in the name of
religious liberty deluged their land with blood,
. trampled upon the very first principles of patriot
: ism, calling in strangers to their assistance [just
m the self-styled "international order" of the A.
P. A. are calling in British Orangemen to help
them "protect" American institutions], and openly
rejoicing In the disasters of their country, and who,
,when they at las: obtained their object. Imme
, diately established a religious tyranny as absolute
us that which they had subverted? ** • *
Nothing can b- more erroneous than to represent
I fProtes.antJ persecution of Catholics} as mere lv
a weapon which was employed in a moment of
; conflict, or as an outburst of natural Indigna
| tion, or as the unreasoning observance of
an old tradition.- Persecution among the
early Protestants was a distinct and definite doc
trine, digested Into elaborate treatises and enforced
against the most inoffensive as against the most
formidable sects, It was the doctnneof the palmiest
days of Protestantism. It was taught by those
who are justly esteemed the greatest of its leaders''
(Lecky; nationalism In >' urope, vol. ii. pp. 57-61).
And now to close. Let me call Dr. Wendte's
attention to the fact that the persecution of
Catholics by Protestants lasted longer and was
far mora- bloody than the persecution of
Protestants by Catholics. Dr. Wendte's school
, makes much of Bloody Mary, forgetting that
she persecuted only for four years, while
I Elisabeth persecuted for forty. They speak
! much of the revocation of the edict of "Nantes;
; they say nothing of the broken treaty oi Lim
, erica.
They denounce the Inquisition, but they
; never let it be known that the Court of Hign
j Commission Is responsible for far more death
sentences. They have one set of weights and
j measures for Catholics, another for them
! selves. In this letter I do not ask for any
I favors, but simply that we be Judged
i by the same rule as others. When it comes
\ down to facts in the past we have nothing to
fear from a comparison, and if we are ques
tioned as to to-day let our deeds speak for us.
Yours, truly, P. C. Yoeke.
REV. E. B. PAYNE'S VIEWS.
He Avoids All Semblance of Either
Prejudice or Pas
sion.
In the course of the sermon preached by
Rev. Edward B. Payne of the Berkeley
Unitarian church on the Yorke-Ross con
troversy he said:
Tbe controversy to which I direct attention
has been in progress for nearly two months.
It is far from my purpose to enter into the
contention itself. I shall content myself with
an attempt to draw therefrom certain general
lessons. *
The first of theso lessons emphasizes the
utter uselessness of such disputations as re
gards the conversion of the disputants them
selves. The probability is that there has not
been in this case and will not be a single con
vert from the ranks of one party to the ranks
of the other party.: Neither will there be any
radical modification of the mental attitudes
previously assumed. -
In the present case we may remind ourselves
that the early disputants were so sure of their
assumed positions that they were willing to
risk money upon them, reminding one of
Byron's lines: ' •*. ,
For most men (till by losing rendered sager),
Will back their own opinions by a wager.
Those who followed risk, perhaps, only their
reputations as thinkers on the correctness of
their positions, but they entered the forum
with declared tenets and a manifest determin
ation to aefend them to the utmost. In the
end neither side will acknowledge itself de
feated, and probably both sides will enjoy the
consciousness of victory.
It may he added, however, that in the light
of these probable results there is a certain use
fulness of controversy. It has an appreciable
party value. It strengthens the contestants.
It does not convert them, it does not modify
radically their attitudes, but it confirms each
side in its own position. It points our their
unsuspected ' weaknesses for correction and
teaches them expertness and agility in attack
and defense. Undoubtedly the present con
testant all regard themselves as now the
most redoubtable warriors, better prepared for
future Onslaughts In the endless war of ideas.
The second lesson: concerns the entire lack
ot mutual confidence between the parties to
this dispute. There is evidently a determined
and uncompromising distrust between Catho
lic and Protestant. It is a distrust which
easily passes into contempt. An interesting
feature of the present case is the fact that
most of the controversialists have, come .into
the arena with protestations of regard for their
antagonists, but alter a few thrusts given and
received this is forgotten and there appears a
tendency to epithet, insinuation and sugges
tion, or direct accusation of evasion, subter
fuge, intellectual : dishonesty, or even,
perhaps, of misrepresentation and falsification.
The newspaper columns have had little daubs
of mud all over them. The arguments have
been liberally ■-■■ sandwiched with invective.
There has been very spiteful talk. It would
seem that these men do not preserve the con
sciousness of brotherhood in the great uni
versal church, but rather feel themselves to be
deadly foes meeting on the battlements. .All
this Is due, dbuDtless, to the Influence of some
centuries of eclesiastical and religious story.
For many, generations *" that story has been
marked by uncompromising prejudice and
bitter enmity between the two great church
Eirties. The Catholic reconnoitering from his
illtop, the Protestant surveying the field from i
' jmaaxam.'.
| his eminence, has each seen in the opposing |
camp; only an army gathered by Satan and
] emanating from the'gates of hell to prevail if
possible against the true church of Christ.
! They could not see in each other any sincerity,
any loyalty to the truth, but only the signs of
a diabolical determination to destroy the holy
institution established by the sacrifice' and
martyrdom of the Nazarene.
They have not listened to the "Pence on
earth, good will to men," but to the spirit of
rage and the promptings of passion. So since
the days of Luther it has been war— to the
death or to victory.
There is nothing more fierce than ecclesiasti
cal hatred and religious passion, and the ex
istence of these between great churches makes
distrust and contempt easy and natural when
individuals of the opposing hosts meet in the
ways. To be- sure, these recent antagonists
have been ready to admit that in the ranks of
their opponents there are many individual
instances of integrity, benevolence and saint
liness, but they regard these as being in spite
of the general tendency and dominant spirit
of each church, and the"v are readily disposed
to seize on the first opportunity to trace dis
honesty, and falsity in the methods of a par
ticular opponent. Hence the epithet, the
insinuation, the accusation and all the mud.
Trickery and villainy are what they expect,
and they readily suppose themselves to have
discovered the evidence of it.
This opens the way for a third instructive
■ lesson, viz.: That the reader, invited to occupy
now this standpoint and now that is impressed
by the alleged hopeless unreliability of the
authorities cited in the argument, or at least
of the manner in whicn these citations are
handled by the disputants. I believe not a
single writer in the list has escaped charges of
unfairness and misrepresentation. The mass
of evidence presented on either side is over
whelming and the reader is ready to be con
vinced by the last letter he peruses, until he
finds next day what a mighty counterstroke is
given to break the force of the authorities
brought into the arena. It is uniformly al
leged by cither side with regard to the cita
tions produced by the other side that they are
either:
1. Utterly partisan and grossly unfair.
2. That tney are conscienceless forgeries.
3. That the disputants have garbled and
manipulated them for a purpose.
4. That erroneous inferences have been
drawn from them.
5. That these errors and inaccuracies prove
the disputants to be liars, or
6. Very incompetent scholars.
So from day to day these charges are hurled
back and forth, as if these gentlemen had
adopted a desperate ecclesiastisal modification
of the game of shuttlecock and battledore.
Of one thing I have become very strongly
convinced, viz., that the Roman Catholic com
munion has had before It a very severe and
impracticable ideal, whicn it has striven vainly
to realize. It has undertaken to maintain an
absolute uniformity of teaching, of spirit, of
method and of aim through all the multiply
ing centuries and amid the shifting course of
human purpose, thought and deed. This it
has deemed to be its duty and its destiny in
view of its alleged vieefegency and repre
sentative commission as mouthpiece and
! referee for the will of the Almighty. But the
task as already defined has been prodigious
aud to my thinking impossible.
| And in my judgment the fact is— though I
, have no doubt that Father Yorke could easily
i produce a three-column article, bristling with
j authorities, to undo this humble opinion— the
fact is that the Roman Catholic church has
i succumbed to the necessity of a constant ac
i commodation and readaptation of its policy to |
; the changes wrought by history in human so- j
: ciety.
Of course it would be impossible for any !
i church, however powerful, to do exactly the '
! same thing all the time, and in every land and i
l among all sorts and conditions of men.
i I dwell on this point because it may explain !
■ how the Catholic apologist may claim, for ex- j
ample, that the Roman church here in the
i United States is not out of harmony with !
' American institutions. ■ •. Ay:
Hut now we come to ask, Is the Roman Cath- '
' olic church in politics? Our neighbors ol the j
I A. P. A. affirm that it is. And they mean, if I
understand them aright, that the church is I
planning and plotting tc secure all official
positions for its adherents and through them
, and the popular vote to control at lEst the leg
j islation of the land and the administration of
! governmental affairs— all this In the interests
: of ultimate papal supremacy. I do not know
how far known and accredited facts justify the
charge. But what 1 do know is that signs
j frequently appear in the horizon to show that i
: all the churches, Protestant as well as Cath- [
olic, are to a greater or less extent in politics.
I I mark the fact that nearly every representa
; tive assembly of the various and several de
i nominations is quite in the habit of drafting
i its manifesto, petition or plea concerning
i some important public matter and dispatch
, ing the same to executive authorities and
legislative bodies, municipal, State or Na
tional, to influence their action.
So each great church has really the same
[ identical consciousness that is attributed to
■ the Papal church and believes that the whole-
J earth, with all Its peoples and their temporal
rulers, must be dominated eventually by the i
glorious doctrine which it cherishes and the !
j principles forwhich it stands as God's chosen
; and favored witness and defender.
I believe that we need something in the na
i ture of an enlarged Monroe doctrine, which
shall proclaim to all the religious zealots tha-t
the heaven which is recognized only through
! their mystic vision shall not rule the world.
; Let us have home rule, make our own laws and
! determine our own destinies. Let all vise.
i minded men, all loyal patriots, stand as against
all ecclesiastical pretension and presumption,
Catholic or Protestant, and demand that the
j confusing distracting questions of religion be \
| held back from tangling the steps and harass
, ing the progress of men as they try to reach :
! solutions of the near practical problems of '
: life.
Another great question and a sixth great les-
I son concerns the attitude of religious bodies
toward education. There is only one clear,
. safe course for this vast interest, and that Is
the absolute and entire secularization of all
; public education.
JESSIE-STREET OUTRAGE
Three Men Suspected of Being
Involved in It Under
Peculiar Circumstances * Connecting
John McCrink With the Revolt-
ing Cruelty to a Horse.
John McCrink, Frank Figineer and
Frank Hallisy, the former an ex-convict
and the two latter vagrants with unen
viable reputations, were arrested last
evening and detained at the Southern
police station under suspicion of being
implicated in the cruel butchery of ahorse
belonging to Expressman Thomas Har
kins of 48 Jessie street' last Monday
morning.
It will be remembered that on the morn
ing on which tbe fiendish crime was com
mitted Harkins found tnat some one had
mutilated one of his animals in a fearful
manner.
The unfortunate beast's eyes had been
gouged out with a piece of iron pipe, its
flanks and hips had been cruelly cut and
bruised, while even its tough hoofs had
been broken and battered | out of shape.
Not content with their work, the wretches
bad tied a rope around the animal's body
and another around its neck, and then
suspended it a few inches above the floor.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals was informed and the society's
special officer, George Delmar, in a few
hours succeeded in obtaining enough in
formation to justify him in arresting the
three men who are now prisoners.
The information at the special's com
mand • particularly pointed to McCrink,
who yesterday was discovered in the yard
in the rear of 153 Minna street, where he
had been stopping.
He endeavored to pass ; ; through the
house to the street, presumably to make
his escape, but Officer Moriarity", who bad
been stationed so as to command a view of
the premises, headed him off. Moriarity
was then joined by Officer Vidian and Mc-
Crink was arrested, v A charge of vagrancy
was placed against him and will be allowed
to stand until the officers have obtained
more evidence.
When questioned by the officers Mc-
Crink denied having had any connection
whatever with the crime. He was asked
what he was doing in tho neighborhood of
Harkins' barn on the morning the animal
was killed. He answered that he had
called 'at Harkins' house for the purpose
of procuring a hammer, which 1 was given
him, but on being informed that a ham
mer covered with blood had been found in
the barn he said that he did not get the
hammer," as it had been missed before he
called at the house. Tbe other two pris
oners were arrested by Officers Ryan and
Tuite, at the suggestion of Special Delmar.
Embonpoint does not mean absolute
fatness; its significance extends only ito .a
moderate and agreeable fullness of figure.
RESCUED A FAIR CLIENT.
Attorney Frank Shea Is Con
sidered a Hero by His
Friends.
DR. HARDING'S BOARD BILL.
How a Physician Attempted to En
force Payment From One of
His Ledgers.
Attorney Frank Shea is considered by
his friends as a heroic champion of the
fair and Dr. W. A. Harding of 500 Sutter
street has decided never again to let rooms
or furnish board for lonely females who
j desire the hospitality of bis home. . .
In fact, Dr. Harding looks upon the
keeping of lodgers of the gentler sex as a
dismal failure, and the events which led
him to this conclusion were told in Justice
Groezinger's court yesterday.
As shown by the evidence, Miss M. A.
Deering contracted with the medico to
occupy apartments in the house to carry
on her business as a dressmaker, at a
monthly rental of $35, offering at the same
time to grace the family table at $20 per
month.
Both parties were apparently satisfied
for some time, and until the dressmaker's
trade fell off and she failed •to promptly
liquidate her indebtedness to the doctor
when it fell due on the first of the month.
The lessee of tbe rooms remonstrated
and demanded his dues, but Miss Deering
could not pay and would not move, and
her landlord was in a quandary.
Finally he hit upon an original plan.
Instead of instituting a suit for unlawful
detainer and having her put out he quietly
locked Miss Deering in her room and
announced that he would not allow her to
depart until the $55 due was forthcoming.
She was not made to go hungry, ber meals
being sent to her regularly, but no callers
were permitted to see her.
Not having the time to watch Miss
Deering himself the doctor hired a man
named Burns to do the work for him and
I the guard was stationed at the door during
! the day to prevent communication with the
; outside world. ••"■..'-" yy
This went on for several days until Miss
Deering managed to get word to Attorney
Shea, a friend, asking him to rescue her
from her captivity.
The attorney did not stand on ceremony
when he called at the house and demanded
admission. V.- ': T~:'-7"'A
Burns demurred, but was seized by the
attorney and tossed to one side, while the
lawyer dasbed upstairs and before he
could be prevented had bundled Miss
Deering out of the house.
The suit was begun against the doctor
for the return oi the "wearing apparel
which Miss Deering had left in the house
and for damages for the forcible detention.
The Sheriff got the clothing and turned it
over to the fair plaintiff, but when it came
to a question of damages she was not so
fortunate. Justice Groezinger decided
that Dr. Harding was perfectly justified
in keeping the clothes, as Miss Deering
was in arrears lor board and lodging, and
gave judgment for the defendant.
Denies That Ho Kissed Her.
Mrs. Anita Eggert says that she is not suing
Charles Shrakkart for breach of promise, and
denies that the defendant ever kissed her, em
braced ncr or took any undue liberties what
ever. According to the statement of her uncle,
Augustus Kallner, she was never alone with
him, and his opportunities for lovemaking
were extremely limited.
Another Drydock Suit.
- James J. Cousins brought suit In the United
States District Court yesterday { against the
California Drydock Company to recover dam
ages, placed at $50,000, for alleged infringe
ment of his patent for using water in balanc
ing a floating drydock.
The Garbage Contracts.
Judge Seaweil has dissolved the temporary
injunction issued at the instance of Henry M.
Gove ami designed to prevent the City from
awarding any contracts for the disposing of
garbage. Gove claims to be assignee of the
lowest bidder.
■Will Go Over the Mayor's Veto.
The Health and Police Committee of the
Board of Supervisors decided yesterday to
recommend that the ordinance locating a new
police station on Washington street, near Polk,
be passed by the board, notwithstanding the
Mayor's veto. y: 7 y/44-z
People's Home Bank.
A meeting of tho directors of the People's
Home Savings Bank was held yesterday, and
the resignation of Director R. S. Fry accepted.
To fill the vacency in the board Eugene M.
Freeman, a well-known pilot, was chosen.
. BATTLE OP THE HOESES.
Cavalry Chargers Lined in Formal
Array Against a Free Herd. :-"--.
Just at sundown, and while we were at
supper, a drove of wild horses numbering
eighty-eight suddenly emerged from
Thatcher's Pass and deployed on the level
ground of the valley. They emerged from
the pass in single file, led by a spotted
: stallion whose mane reached almost to his
I knees, and whose tail touched the ground
! when he was at rest. Of the remainder of
| the herd about thirty were fine animals.
i Three or four were recognized as cavalry
horses which had been abandoned on the
march, and twice that number had collar
marks to prove that they had stampeded
from some immigrant train.
When clear of the pass they formed in
line and advanced upon us to within a
quarter of a mile. We had seventy-five
horses at tbe lariat-pins, ana for half an
hour we had all we could do to prevent a
stampede. Every animal seemed enraged
at the sitht of the free herd, and the cap
tain Kentucky stallion acted as if pos
sessed by a fiend. • .
• At last we drove the free herd down the
valley, but our horses continued very rest
less all night. At dawn the wild horses
again appeared a mile below us, and, on
the instant, every animal in camp stam
peded. They broke through the free herd
jin a solid wedge. Then the two herds
j turned facing each other at a distance of
I about three-quarters of a mile.
Then ,we witnessed something which
j only a cavalryman will credit. Our horses
| 101 l into double line and dressed to the
j right as perfectly as if a trooper had occu
! pied each saddle, and, while we looked,
! the lines suddenly moved " forward on a
charge; When they swept past us the
! alignment was : absolutely perfect, with
j the captain's horse on the right, and lead
ing by about twenty feet.
" The line of wild horses bent and wavered,
but did not break until struck. It was like
striking, a drumhead with a sledge-ham
mer. I believe that fully *" forty horses
went down under the shock, but all except
four were speedily on their feet again.'
From this on it was a melee, the
whole ' drove circling round, and each
horse biting and kicking and dis
playing such ferocity as to aston
ish us. The mob fought past us
down the valley and back, and right in
front of the camp the climax came.: The >
battle had been raging half an boar, when ,
the spotted stallion hobbled out of it on
three legs and bleeding from half a dozen
wounds, and that seemed to take the pluck
out of his followers. 5 Some ran up the val
ley and some down, but of the eighty-eight
only fifty-seven got away. .
\V hen the hottest . of it " was over we
dashed in and secured a horse here and
there, and in this manner we finally got
hold of the last one, which was the cap
tain's. Of the seventy-five only > five had
escaped scot free. Every one. of toe others
had "been bitten and kicked, and twelve of
them were so crippled as to be worthless.
There were seven dead and thirty-six
crippled horses on that battlefield when
hostilities ceased, and of the fifty-seven
wild horses which made their escape many
were iimping badly.— A Cavalry Officer, in
Detroit Free Press.
• OOffCEMINQ AMBEKGEIS.
An Old Whaleman Gives Some Facts
- About It.
The origin of the -valuable substance
known as ambergris, without which my
lady's perfumery would be sadly lacking
nowadays, bas been the subject of much
controversy, and many accounts have been
written concerning it that so far are wide
of the mark. A story tbat has been ex
tensively copied recently regarding the
discovery of a vast quantity of tbe stuff in
the interior of a dead whale ascribed the
accumulation iof the ambergris to the fact
that the whale was suffering from appen
dicitis, caused by swallowing a devil-fish,
whose parrot-like bill the whale had found
it impossible to digest. ■//-.- Pr:7 % /p.-.
Tins story has inspired an old whaleman
to write the following to the New York
Recorder regarding his knowledge of the
subject: Ambergris is a secretion found
only in a diseased sperm whale. It will
only float on the surface of the water for a
very short time, when it will go into solu
tion and sink. It is only secured when
the whale is being cleared* of its blubber,
or the fatty coating from which we pro
cure the oil. When this fatty coating is
removed the ambergris will roll out upon
the surface of the water or from the whale
when stranded and dead upon some
shore. -V; '•'•" ■"* ■>" 4 : / P.
j In appearance it is a dark gray, sticky
substance, and very vile smelling in its
crude state, but when j dry it is almost
colorless. It is very rarely found, and is
used in the manufacturing of the best
perfumes and perfumed soaps. Not as a
perfume in itself, for, as stated above, it
is almost odorless, but it has the power of
retaining and increasing the odor of the
essential oils that are used in the manu
facturing of perfumes, and the skill of man
■ as never, discovered a substitute for it.
It is also used by the idol worshipers of
China, India and Africa as incense to their
gods, chiefly on account of its great value.
There are several grades of this ingredi
ent. The light gray is the most valuable,
bringing at the present time $40 per ounce,
and others of darker grades from $5 to $15
per ounce.
The cause of ambergris accumulating in
a whale is constipation, or indigestion.of
the squid upon which the sperm whale
lives. The squid, as we whalemen call
them, are more commonly known as the
devil-fish. . They are armed with a sharp
pointed beak like that of a parrot, which
no doubt irritates the intestines and
causes a disease like constipation, The
whale dies in great agony. Of course we
cannot tell the exact cause, a3 during the
250 years that America has been engaged
in the whale fishery, no surgical operation
has been performed on a whale.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS
An Epitome of Sermons of the Week
Throughout the Land.
Fallowing is a summary of the principal
set mons recently delivered in the United
States and Canada by the leading clergy
men, priests, prelates, religious teachers
and professors of tbe Christian faith. In
every instance the full text has been care
fully read and abbreviated :
ATONEMENT.
The essence of the atonement is a fathomless
plan worthy of a loving God, whereby he is
able to forgive his penitent creatures and do
no injustice.— F. W. Luce, Methodist/
Davenport, la. . ' ; :. '
FUTURE PUNISHMENT.
It matters not whether there is an extraneous
torment in the future life or not. The suffer
ing of the unrepentant soul for sin will be in
finite and terrible.— Rev. E. H. Dornrlasher,
Lutheran, Springfield, Ohio.
PERSECUTED CATHOLICS.
The history of the Catholic church from the
beginning of the Christian era down to the
present time shows that she has been perse
cuted the same as the Savior was.— Rev. E. J.
Melley, Catholic, ScrantoD, Pa.
SELFISHNESS.
Selfishness is the worm that eats the divine
life out of the heart of man. Selfishness is the
giant that battles with Christ for the souls of
men.— Rev. C. S. Sargent, Congregationalism
St. Louis, Mo.
HEAVEN.
The Scriptures teach us that heaven is a con
dition rather- than a locality. Heaven is
brought to us before we go to heaven. Apart
from this there can be no heaven.— Rev. R. A.
Sawyer, Springfield, Mass.
'- 1 -.• LABOR STRIKES.
Ido not believe in strikes. It is not the way
to settle difficulties between employer and em
ploye. A strike does harm to both parties, and
then it gives a chance to lawless people to do
evil.— Rev. J. W. Sullivan, Baptist, Philadel
phia, Pa.
HAPPINESS.
The true secret of happiness is giving what
costs us something — what we sacrifice some
thing for. It makes no difference as to the
value of the gift-— lt is giving with love in the
heart which makes the true recompense.— Rev.
Joseph Reunie, Presbyterian, Covington, Ky.
. THE FIRST MAN.
The first man of whom science has any
knowledge was a dull-witted, earthy-minded
creature, intent upon something to eat or kill,
blind to beauty in flowers or sublimity In
landscape, with small power of sentiment or
faith.— Rev. George A. Thayer, Unitarian, Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
INTELLIGENCE.
The glory of God is Intelligence, but not the
kind of intelligence that comes merely of
scholastic training. A man may bo worldly
wise and yet a fool for saying there is no God.
Intelligence is priesthood and not anything of
the earth earthy.— Teasdale, Mormon,
Salt Lake City, Utah. .
CAPITAL AND LABOR. .
With passion on the one side and capital on
the other, with a Nation in danger of being cut
in twain by these battles between the upper
and lower classes, the only way to settle these
quarrels is by the intervention of law and jus
tice.—Rev. Lyman Abbott, Brooklyn, If. Y.
THEOLOGIANS.
. You have not made a man a lawyer when
you have furnished him with license and code.
You cannot make a physician out of a box of
pills and a case of instruments. Neither can
you make ministers of Christ with ecclesiasti
cal * ritual " and vestments.— Mr. Vance
Nashville, Term. .
. . POWER OF THE CHURCH.
The saloons exist to-day by permission of the
Christian church, and every other evil lives
because Christian people tolerate it. The
church of to-day, would she but use her power,
would mold public sentiment, would outline
State and National legislation and control the
business in the marts of trade.— Rev. J. F.
Hartman, Lutheran, Altoona, Pa. p7- yyA
IS SIN ATTRACTIVE.
It is a mistake to sny that sin is repulsive
and unattractive. The truth is there are thou
sands of naughty things that the unregenerate
thinks are nice. Sin. is often attractive and
enticing, else fewer people would . be sinners.
Too often men are in sinful ways because they
like the ways of sin.—R ev. C. B. Mitchell
Kansas City. w'AfP/'y v " c ">
NAPOLEON AND LINCOLN. •
> For some purpose or other the magazines
have given us a great deal of Napoleon. They
have now started us on Abraham Lincoln
That is more cheerful. They would not do
that unless the people were found- to be more
with mercy and justice than with force— heavy
artillery.— Rev. W. Reed, Independent, Denver
Colo. . .- -• i
UNITY.
The peoples of the earth are coming closer
and closer together. The standards of citizen
ship and character are universally rising. Wo
are coming to a common tongue, or else to a
common understanding of all tongues The
elements of religion are coming to be recog
nized as universal, and the old - religious
hatreds are dying out.-Rev. S. B. Stewart, Uni
tarian, Lynn, Mass. _*
CIRCUMSPECTION.
'• To walk circumspect is to walk with head ud
and eyes open, v Legs and head and eyes an
heart all at work examining the : past, search o
ing the present and scanning the future No '
looking back only, but looking up and l dow*
aud . back and forward-looking all around-
That is what circumspection isf-Rev 5-
Rogers, Baptist, Springfield, 111. : . " : y.,
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. '
The chief end of the existence of a city cor-
Doration is to afford protection to person and
to property. In other. words,' the chief end of a
city is to maintain . righteousness and to put
down wickedness. Some people think the city
belongs to councils and the countryman thinks
it belongs to the policeman with his brass but
tons.-Rev. P. H- Mowry, Presbyterian, Ches
ter, Pa. GKOVER CLEVELAND.
He has been dragged from Ms place i as &
statesman down to the level of the political
leeches that surround him. By one breath of
his mouth be threw millions of the people's
money in the maelstrom of financial ruin; in
another breath he piteonsly invokes his Con
gress to avert the crash he has called down
upon our heads.-Rev. H.E. Cotton, Hagers
town, Md.
THE PRESS.
The press of to-day is exercising a tremen.
dous power. It arraigns political panics,
straightens out corporations, unearths crime
and discusse-- strategic points in statesman
ship. It even collars irate theological dis
putants; It opens a larger mission for the
church by disseminating Sunday thoughts
through the week. It, is lifting up # the wfiole
nation. It is itself a liberal education -Rev.
IV. 11. G. Temple, Congregationalism Seattle,
Wash.
i/i\A- ■• CANT. • '
The talk that comes from mouths of people
who look wise but are not is nothing. A man
may be a communicant, may be regular in
prayer, and be a very bad man. I hate this
cant that passes itself in the name of piety;
the disposition to do things on Sunday and
never think of them again until the next bun
day.—Rev. John Leal, Episcopalian, Rochester,
N.Y.
LUCK AND PLUCK.
There is no such thing as luck. Luck is
pluck. Luck is a* foolish doctrine of fate ; it is
the silliness of superstition ; it is the cynicism
of fools, incompetents and failures. You never
hear a real sensible man talking about luck;
he knows the philosophy of success too well;
he knows the meaning of patience and pains
taking care, of energy and economy.— Rev. J.
G. Rust, Baptist, Nashville, Conn.
EDUCATION.
No country is saved by a multitude of books
or schoolhouses. A man is in danger of being
roasted alive who at this time of day will care
to utter a heresy, but It needs to be uttered.
Knowledge is power, indeed; and so is dyna
mite, but you need to be careful as to the hands
to wnich you intrust it. And education needs
to be sanctified by religion to make it safe.—
Rev*. P. S. Henson, Baptist, Chicago, 111.
TURKEY.
If ever there was a putrefying carcass in the
shape of a nation, it is the so-called Turkish
Government, over which I hope, at this mo
ment, hover the eagles of God's avenging
judgments: not that I mean to be merciless* to
the individual man, black-hearted and brutal
as he may be, but the instinct of humanity
does seem to call for the wiping out of the
very name of Turkey from the register of na
tions.—Rev. N. C. Fetter, Baptist, Doyles
town, Pa.
SOCIAL PURITY.
In all the past society has demanded purity
on the part of woman". A woman's crown is
her purity. If she loses this crown ft is almost
an impossibility to reinstate her in society.
But society has been so constituted that a man
could be vicious in conduct and depraved in
life, ana yet find an entrance to good society.
It is high time that society should demand the
same purity of a man as is demanded of a
woman.— Rev. F. A. Scofield, Methodist, New
Haven, Conn. •=->.-
IMPERFECTION.
No person's faith or love or reverence is per
fect. The trembling fears and hopes and anx
ieties of life have not trembled to their final
poise and rest. No man's work is done. A
sense of imperfection still lingers in all noble,
earnest souls. There Is imperfection in our
judgments, a want of charity; there is a lack
of self-control, a want of patience, a lack of
steadiness of purpose which destroys our iden
tity; a want of deliberation. We act first and
tnen think. We do things too rapidly.— Rev.
E. L. Rexford, Universalist, Columbus, Ohio.
■ 77; BUDDHISM.
Buddhism had no personal god. Buddha
himself, as tho representation of perfect in
telligence, came to be worshiped by Buddhists.
If Buddhism recognized God at all it was an
impersonal god. No religion can continue for
very long without a personal god. Buddhism
has almost entirely disappeared, being swal
lowed up by the older BrahminismJind other
forms of Hindooism. Buddhism recognized
human misery, but not human sin. Buddhism
made no attempt at the redemption of society.
In all these respects Christianity supplies what
Buddhism lacked. No system of morality ever
can be greatly effective which does not rest
upon divine sanction.— Rev. H. P. Sprecher,
Presbyterian, Cleveland, Ohio.
' FAITH AND DOUBT.
. Faith is the natural attitude toward truth
and our fellow-men. Doubt is begotten of ex
perience. Trusting God is not stranger than
trusting our dearest friend. Faith is the
root. It is not believing a set of propositions
about God that makes the Christian, but it is
believing in God himself. Faith in God is
trusting bim, just as you would trust a surgeon
with your life, only in a higher degree. When
one believes in the things in the Bible, when
one trusts his life and eternity in God's hands,
then is faith true. The object of faith is not a
doctrine or creed, but believing.— Rev. Dr. Mo
clintock, Presbyterian, Burlingame, lowa.
THE PREACHER INCAPACITATED.
The preacher is incapacitated for the practi
cal work of the world by reason of the mental
attitude which his position requires. He has
accepted as his supreme guide an authority
which, however reliable It may be, is not the
commonly accepted one among men. His
mental processes are peculiar. His message
has been given to him to declare without any
discretionary powers. By the exacting con
ditions of his vocation he is ai leu a ted from the
life of the world. He represents the other
world. He is esteemed for his goodness and
pitied for his lack of common, every-day sense.
He could not be a Constable here, but he may
be a candidate for Mayor of Paradise.— Rev. J.
E. Roberts, Unitarian, Kansas City, Mo.
A ..-"■-"■ SPEECH.
The mystery of speech is very great To set a
thought afloat on a breath is greater than
launching a ship on the sea. To coin a feeling
and give it wings to fly on a word framed by
the lips is as if you mined and minted gold
and breathed into the image a spark of your
. own soul's life by a single act of will. It is the
wonder of God's creating man out of the dust
of the ground when you utter, not the cry of a
beast, but a thought thatbreathes, a word that
. burns. Speech is the mystery of life, the deeper
mystery of the life of the soul. Speech is a
creation greater than that of man himself.—
Rev. R. A. Sawyer, Springfield, Mass.
THE PACE THAT KILLS.
Fast "Work and Fast Eating Slake Three
. Score Years and Ten a Jtipo Old
Age These Hays.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The American people live too fast, eat too
fast and drink too fast. This has brought upon
many of us a train of nervous and stomach
disorders that are very difficult to manage.
Investigation and chemical analysis to dis
cover such compounds as will help those suf
fering from such ills has resulted in the dis
covery of Br. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People, which has taken very high rank as a
specific remedy.
- H. P. Owens, a traveling man, 30 years of
age, who is well known in this community and
generally liked because he is a bright, ener
getic young fellow, resides with his mother at
335 Central avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. He has
been the victim of dyspepsia, which took the
form of continuous constipation, and
strangely enough, his mother suffered from
the same trouble. Mr. Owens testified to the
merits of Pink Pills In a most enthusiastic
way, and said to the Enquirer reporter:
"I am glad to say anything I can for Dr
Williams' Pink Pills because they did me great
good and other people ought to know of their
virtues as a medicine in stomach troubles It
was some time ago when I felt a heavy feelin-r
in my stomach and I grew very constipated I
did not consult a doctor, but having heard of
the Pink Pills I bought a box of them. •In two
or three days the heavy feeling In my stomach
disappeared and my.bowels were regular I
did not have to use more than a box of them
before I was well. Since that time I have only
occasionally been troubled with constipation
and I never get worried because I know just
what to do. Mother was also troubled with
indigestion and the Pink Pills did the same for
her they did for me— cured her; didn't they,
mother?" . -**
When appealed to Mrs. Owens answered:
"That. is right. I found that it was a great
medicine, so easy to take and so quick and
lasting in its results." ' .*.
Mr. Owens continued: "I believe that these
pills are also good for nervousness. When I
.had my stomach trouble I was also quite
nervous, and that disappeared with the dys
pepsia. The Pink Pills are all that Is claimed
for them. ou can make any use of this testi
monial that you see lit."
H. P. Owens has occupied several positions
of trust in this city. He was (or «* time an em
ploye of the Commercial-Gazette. He will co
on the road. in a few days for a prominent
business house here. Mrs. Owens is quite as
enthusiastic as her son about the Pink Pills
and her host of lady friends can verify her
good opinion of this wonderful remedy if they
feel disposed to do so at any time. Where the
testimony is so general and unantmousas to
the excellencies of Pink Pills as the Enquire?
has found it to be there is certainly good re*
son to believe all the good I, g^s aid-about
the safe and simple remedy aooui
Ur. Williams' Pink Pills «* Pale People con
tain all the elements necessary to give new
life and richness to the blood and restore shaft
tered nerves. They may be had of a Tdr ? RK iste
or direct by mail from the Dr. Williams' *fed£
cine Company, Schenectady, N V *? 50c Mr
box, or six bottles for $2 50. * PW