Show CASTE IN CHRISTIAN WORSHIP BISHOP of the episcopal church discusses in the forum ebrum for may the necessity for the amer amerian can cathedral in the course of his argument he thus ee ce cants upon the pew system in vogue in all the orth orthodox ort hodo churchek 1 I presume it would be safe to say that there is no other land in christendom where so many places of religious worship bear witness to the inflexible supremacy of the spirit of for wha F is a the spirit of caste if it be not the spirit that in these conditions and relationships which seeming to exclude distinctions implying superiority or inferiority of persons insists upon affirming them and is there any other institution which in the face of the plain teachings of the religion of jesus christ as where in the epistle of st james it is said paid my brethren have not the faith of our lord jesus christ the lord ol 01 glory with respect of persons for if chete come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel ao parel and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment and ye have respect to him that heareth the gay ay c clothing thing and say unto him sit tao thou u t there h ere in a good place and say to the poor stand thou there or sit here bere under my footstool are ye not then partial bial in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts though th ie i e discriminate from unworthy motives mot ivea is there I 1 ask any other institution which in the face of the plain teaching ot of its founder departs so radically and habitually from that teaching as thus given as does the modern dewed church mr webster once aid taid t that it was an evidence of the divine origin of Christia christianity pity than it had so long survived its being preached in tub pulpits pulpit R it will be a stronger evidence of 0 it if in america it survives the enormous incongruity of the pew system 11 it ft objected to by some newspaper critics on the bishops Bie hope article that while declaiming declaim njg against the pew system he does not prescribe a remedy As we understand him he would have cathedrals in which all comers would be tree free to what there is add he cites the services at st pauls in london where sometimes six or seven thousand people congregate under the great dome and where there are no reserved rights right but there is no need to make cathedrals only the places of worship where all comers wil be welcome without fee or pew rent in the church of jesus christof christ of latter day saints nicknamed the mormon ll church there are no pews and no collect collection iono at ac public worship other methods are employed to meet necessary expenses than rent renting flig seats and thrusting a contribution box in the face of the worshipper wor shipper the tub pulpit the box pew and the collection plate are concomitants ol of modern perverted christianity and ought to be abali bed with the obsolete doctrines which were once considered essential they should be tumbled into the literal hellfire hell bell fire with infalt damnation dam nation natural depravity salvation by election and other exploded dogmas which are now rejected by most thinking people claw class distinctions are not compatible ath chrimes religion anything that favors them is contrary to the genius of his teachings and ought not to be permitted to figure in his church wealth is not to be nor it its power agn ignored red either in religion or elsewhere but the brotherhood of man which is the corollary of the fatherhood of god is one of the essentials senti als of the true christian faith and in christian worship all people should be on an quality bishop potter on this question is undoubtedly correct |