Show insincerity OE DF MODERN DIVINES tn THE h articee artie artic fe 0 on a insincerity win in the pulpit hy by rev E U jb hale haie publish ed in the north Ant american brica n review to which wo we referred q vi a few days dayt ago contains the following remarks which the author say says s were made to hinl by a clergyman of experience haar afraid they think jusli ceia k that if tyndall Tyl tsi idall or huxley lectured in the music hall 1111 on one 0 4 our bur subjects say on education or oron on the uke relief odthe of the poor which every 60 would say pay were our subjects I 1 think that audience of three thousand people thorh th gre pre would beilen believe P that tyni tyri dall dail dahlor or huxley was tellin tiling co thel thul very best he knew and tellin telling eib dit it precisely I 1 think the tha audience would believe in his hi s sincer it but bat if one of Us ministers were lh to in the hall on one of their thein subjects 04 oli e or he law af natural se selection lection orlee or the crek crea tiou of the world buo I 1 do not think that all that audience would trust us in the tb bame same way I 1 think many any per wons loons would ouid doubt our sincerity because ca U 4 0 ile vie we are clergymen for we are const coutt constantly antly stating kating as truth so many things which we cannot prove that I 1 think many mi y persons have lost their confidence in our sincerity and consider us as people who in the Inai interests ests of a cause overstate understate der state or are in some other way indifferent to accuracy this ian laa very Ingen ingenious loiiS bu but t humiliating milia ting confession theroman The thero there roean can be I 1 truth fiat fifty y years ago or less hess the tha clergy cl ergy could dogma itze with lut dut out little question an avowed skeptic was a rara avis and was vas generally shunned as a bird of evil omen the parson was a sacred person in the eyes of the multitude and his utterances were received as authority on religious questions but latterly the people have taken to thinking for themselves on tile the questions about which the preachers most discourse upon and have found that the ignorance of mankind in relation to divine things is as deep in a the pulpit as in t the e pews fews Ws and in m the religious co colleges leges as among the unlettered populace pu ce the world has been helped ea to this understanding by the powerful preaching of the elders of this church who have startled the continents and the isles of the sea with proof proofs sor af the general apostasy from the primitive christian christiaa falch faich and practice and of the utter lack of divine authority in the mil mii ministers ilsters of the various clashing sects and contending churches in attempting to meet the arguments and testimony of our brethren the clergy bave have exhibited so much weakness and have resorted to so many fallacies and positive untruths un truths that very many who have not accepted the latter day gospel have had their eyes so far opened to the thes shallow ballow pretensions of orthodox clergymen and other professed servants of a being of whom they have no definite knowledge that they have haye come to regard the christian ministry as a mere trade or profession and and the saying of its incumbents mere matters of opinion without authority and lacking that measure i of assurance which the scientific lecturer has reached and is able to impart it is really surprising that men of intelligence and any de degree gree greo of sincerity can remain in the position of pretended representatives of deity pro essing easing to be called of god and ancl performing administrative acts in the name of the holy trinity ity when they disclaim any communication with the heavens themselves and deny its enjoyment by others in the light of sound reason and tested by the guage of matters of or fact their claims to divine au authority lhorty are shown to be a sham and their sacerdotal garments cannot cover jip jup their evil dent deficiencies nor impose upon a generation emerging from the athral dom dem of creeds and the bondage 0 of raft how is it possible that they can keel keep up the tho illusion in their own minds that they have hale any right to the position they claim when they find themselves compelled in their public ministrations to say so many thin bilings as they cannot prove and in tile the interests of a cause to rover cover overstate understate or in some other way act with indifference to accuracy and who mong wong them has a right to complain at the general lack laek backof of confidence in the orthodox pulpit while such insincerity is so common and perceptible every now and again some eminent preacher comes out plainly and avows his disa disagreement 1 with the dogmas of his ill sect get and suffers sunders the penalty of discharge from its recognized ca 11 minis try but usually he be sets U up ul for himself in the pr preaching business and assumes a similar position to the old one while proclaim i ing ng a modified or opposite doctrine this assumption without truthful basis tends to ta tiie the promotion of jh fidell fidelity ty it a powerful er ul weapon in the hands of the 6 skeptic eption it leads to disgust or indifference toward towar 1 religion rell reil 1 glon gion aiu alU altogether dether gether and those who persist in occupying the po position of or fok for the eternal when they must know their utter lack of authority tho rity and are eyen even afflicted with doubts and fears about the reality ra aliby of the things thino they assume to expound will find themselves required to answer for their presumption aresu matl ion lon and its awful consequences consequence to mankind before the liar ilar dar oar of Z eternal anal sus justic without sincerity no preacher can become successful in the tile ministry and this can only con come ae fron from a strong assurance of af tho the ruth truth the reason why same some somo of our elders who have not nop no been blessed with much scholastic education have in many LA accomplished more in the ministry than others of considerable learning is because they were thoroughly in earnest and completely satisfied atis nned fled of the truth of what they proclaimed and of their authority from god to proclaim it they who know that they are right aie nie are able to go ahead with unwavering assurance their testimony Js powerful a and nd convincing to the honest heart which echoes the honest buttera utterance ne the they y speak ak as men having baving a uther ity T they ste ey have avo ave no speculative theories or oy doubtful notions f to 0 p present r i es e nt but lay down the revealed truths of heaven in terms of bonfi dence that cannot beshak be shaken enand and with sincere positivism that is the effect of certainty and makes its impress on the sincere listener no rno man should attempt to declare the things of god without a personal testimony from god of their truth and the certainty that he is divinely authorized to proclaim them any one may expound ills his views and opinions on religious as on other subjects buethe but the position of the gospel gospe minister is different from that of the secular lecturer and calls for divine authority to stand in it the article by mr hale states truthfully the fact of the hollowness nt ss weakness and waning power of the orthodox pulpit but he has no effle efficient fen len t remedy to oner from the fact that while lie he may be more sincere than many of his brethren whom he takes to task he is as des as the rest of that testimony assurance and authority which are essential to a true servant of the most high god and the lack of which esplain throughout all the multifarious sects that constitute modern christendom the remedy is present divine revelation and that the ane orthodox modern minister utterly repudiates the venerable lucretia mott whose death was recently but erroneously reported is in rapidly failing falling health although confined to her roomier room om her her ber mind is stron strong and bri bright ht 9 she be resides with her doiy son in law ad edward if davis on chelton hills near philadelphia the october number of harper magazine contains some beautiful specimens of the engravers art the illustrations being superb the reading matter is exceedingly interesting and much of it very instructive as well as entertaining in all the departments apartments part ments t s it is is a s splendid bendid I 1 number harper bros R new few lew yolk yo ik jas dwyer salt balt lake city the orientals Orient OrIen ais als are fast adopting 9 the ways of the caucasians trades unions the Celes celestial liol lIal empire says appear now to have taken root in japan it is reported that owing to the recent rise in the price of r rice lee all the laborers in cifu mino province made an arrangement among themselves and forced their employers to raise the wares wages an english journal speculating on the possibility of russia obtaining possession of the Corea says that in such an event russians maritime provinces would be extended southward to the fhe same parallel with her possessions in tile the west and not even great britain or the united states would bavero have so commanding an influence in the pacific an instrument called the stath I 1 mcgraph mo graph for recording the speed of railway trains has been I 1 invented by a german at cassel and works so well that the prussian government js about cotest to test it on some of the state lines A A dial in view of the engineer enables him to ascertain the velocity of the locomotive at any moment and the changes of speed are graphically represented upon a roll of paper which can dan be studied at the end of the tho journey while the tile world has been exercised for many years over expeditions to the borth north pole the south pole has excited but little attention the arctic circle seams seems beems to have a centre of attract attraction lod iOD but the antarctic ra ta ther repel repels than thaw otherwise however an italian antarctic expedition isi is proposed ro posed by bova who was one orle of the officers under Nord ensz on the vega it is to sail in the spring of 1881 and aud touch at monte alonte video terra del fuego falkland and south shetland islands an and d proceeding in a southwestwardly direction commence explorations pl orations expecting to be engaged for two winters in the on and return by way of hobart town the tile expenses are estimated at ine lne lire ire |