| Show sabbath da day y topics INGERSOLL IS G ilk abday BOB day of triumph 1 1 his hot shot I 1 into n to the batteries ot of calvinism have done their deadly work there are mos roost t P pil pable signs of capitulation in the conference of the church oracles they of course do not riot admit for an instant a that he the ungodly aud and blasphemous bob had any hand in the business of reform now vigorously vigrous ly active amon among g them but the nature of the changes proposed in the confession ct of the hurch is to eay say the leat a strong testimonial for bobs animal versions the debate upon the innovations proposed is being held in the fourteenth street scotch churchner church New york and ad n at the days proceedings of which we have information over a thousand a spectators were present including three hundred ladies who witnessed the arguments pro and con with ith emotion frim the galleries among the objectionable doctrines which w the would have hav a ei er indicted from the confession are reprobation the damn damnation ati on 0 of infanta infants the classification of roman catholics ss as idolaters idol idola aters tors the statement that the pope is antichrist anti christ etc one of the interesting speakers on the debate of the new school was the reverend dr briges whose hose publications had been reviewed in unmodified S ixon by the other a de do it will be been by the tenor of his elech that the debate has not much from the restraining influence of the church a sir BIT brigs brigis said SA id be he had been much interested interest ett in that dehate by by the ilia sighs and tears with which the majority had enforced their arguments what are thay cyina c ying about said he lie with a heretical zeal that must have nude made the pious soul of dr flail sink within him lias has anybody prop propped oed to interfere with their liberty of belief they may keep r on believing them if they w wish ish the tile proposition is not to tell them that they shall not believe these things but to ay that their brethren who do not believe aneca tr ism shall not be e 0 to o see them kep in I 1 the L public Confes confession ifon of faith cf t the le c church hurch and nd have to deame them or apology ze zo for them t afore all the worl wort 1 sume will ill eay say tint that ie is bidad ism well im not afraid of being ca called iad a broa 1 churchea i I 1 am a broad churchman and you all know it we wo want a creed that shall not be a jumbling together of all that is in the confession and the two cate chasms but something for everyday every day use in our congregations we do not want one of these congregational creeds such as is used I 1 know in the tile church of at least one distinguished brother ali win appears here as an opponent of revision heaven eave save ua us from such calvinism we want t to 0 drive into oblivion all these complicated false and unorthodox creeds that are now being used by the churches all over the tits cu country it ia is eaid said that we are cutting out the heart of 0 f calvinism what w is the heart of calvinism these things that we are to cut out are warts on the tile skin of calvinism they are the parings of tile rails that every biblical and classical student was done with long ago remove them and the church will be as calvinistic ai ever what wo we wish to do is to prevent these gentlemen who represent rep lepri reent seat but a school of calvinism who are but scholastic and speculative Cal from holding the whip over others who do not dot believe in their theories we are going to keep hist historical calvinism and we ara are opposed to the tyranny of bofsch sch lastic calvinism the dec declination of tin doctrine of the tho damnation of infants 6 and nd the feahan was distinctly mide made and upheld tims and again by the divines who made this tills confession it was upheld all through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there is no use la in baying saying now that the confession mean what it wai was meant to rhein me in the fact is that the church haa has come over to the view of koith kith and quaker and has abaid med the old view of the damnation of infants and an d the heathen the thing to do ii is to change the not to attempt to falsity falsify it or ti to get got aroun I 1 it by quibbles like that once used by a predecessor of dr batan at princeton perhaps god gail never allows any but elect infanta infants to die tn in infancy 11 the most horrifying g break of all was made ma de by a young divine who wai wa also among the broad churchmen the speaker braa with a graphic representation resen tation of how via young men were dropping oat out of the church and concluded his argument for reform r e with an ep isole 11 lie a had hai bean been preaching in in cleveland clevelan d and 0 one ne night he found hia tits congregation coni crega particularly weak after the tile mee meeting ting be investigated the sensation in pernon person the spirit took him to the opera oper house which he found I 1 packed to the roof root with people hia life parishioners among the rest listening to ito a blasphemous ti radall against christianity while awas I 1 was thre thare bays says the th young youn the speaker pulled pulle y out a copy of tha 0 4 11 1 slap sl I 1 I 1 sp T I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 and for forty minutes ha he spoke aa aga net not the doctrine of re proba I 1 ion as there set ont and I 1 have to acknowledge u that the tile arguments that ie is advanced in bis his racy and attractive way ay were un unanswerable answerable b by me te I 1 know that many young men who wn 0 were there that night were co confirmed ed in ill their ek by the use in that way ay that night of the tile doctrine that we e are now trying to get out of the 11 dr P ge in n the othar side waa was startled that any rood good presbyterian bad had found Ingerl arguments nn tin answerable lie had BO do doubt that if mr ingersoll Ine ersoll had bad his bitt way about it he would the in I 1 n fact he was net altogether certain I 1 ai n that to mr ingersoll more than any other roan man was due the agitation over the confession 11 IN N shouted voice all over the audience take that b ck yon you dont mean chati after tho the confusion subsided the iker explain ex plain ed that there waa nothing pera personal unal intended in bh his remark that he loved ilia opponents eftev etc which deemed to satisfy objectors and so peace reigned awa a the rev dr PAr parkhurst khurt is one of tho tile bom I 1 throwers th rowers in lie the conflict lie ile threw tile congregation 2 into a twenty enty four hour paralysis by declaring with aa an irreverence that to his opponents seemed all but demoniacal that he bad had never read the confession until he be became a member of the committee on revision the trouble with the tile instrument he said was that it its 9 centre of gravity was not in in coina cotoc dence with the centre of gravity of the scriptures lie was willing to grant that go I 1 waa was under no obligations to us to afford us a means of Falva salvation tio 13 but ha he wall under obligations to himself to us an opportunity of being sved saved the damned al aide I 1 I 1 0 o 0 of f holiness said I 1 he the speaker I 1 has tilts been just ft a little overworked overwork eJ if I 1 take the thorough view of this doctrine I 1 must eay to my congregation I 1 some of you are going to b be 0 damned are damned have been damned from fron the time you ahe were born were hated h by god from the very moment of your conception murmurs and protests from several parts of the church II 11 I 1 thought I 1 had bad to teach tha thal I 1 would tear my geneva gown into abre shreds and tn my y bible into rags before another sabbath and my elders and almost my in y whole congregation would sustain I 1 me n 0 the debate is being watched with as deep interest as any religious discussion cur sion that has taken place for many a day the question whether christians shall dance I 1 is a looming up once more to harass the imaginations of the followers to were of the old discipline the will winsome contle terpsichore baa has been the butt of ministerial is through many man y yea s but neither execration e xe cration nor prohibition seemed to ruffle lier tier god humr she lias has four flourished like a green bay tree growing co itina stronger in her art arts and the number other wo at A first farst it was only tha tho wayward aad and that were al lurd ant an I 1 ext excommunication KM tho the rule but it was not long till among her vot aries were counted couett i the good church gers g ers ilia sunday a hoot tei chere chers and now dow the minia tera vea are in for it anat i a tr ti cm em are and that portion IF is growing threateningly numerous the old school methodists have hao long been bean denouncing the new school presbyterians rians fir f ir bein being over merry in their convivial diversions and more esaw eo so ill ils have at times forgot themselves and brought the crime home io to their own doors in in their caie fur the tile CLity of the church this however is not a popular confession when the churches come round to a frank confession of their susceptibilities to the dancing goddess we may look for a re revolution each such a as man n s ma made never ent before when such subtle infections got onca one 3 vigorously their seeds are in the wind ind and breed like the spares of a clita contagion gloo A fe few w of the divines are in the net fist fast f enough following is a paragraph from a facture on ilia which e hies of pleasure delivered by the ilia rev 0 S haton laton at the church of tho tile divine ty new york ITh fro is perhaps no question BO hotly disi speed aa as tile one I 1 have bave proposed fo foi our evenings consi oration the rho atti ie of the present church as represent d by the and its strict eist MeM members bArS has hati been one of an antagonism to the dince dance at present though the clergymen who are the dacet cants of thole who firmer friner ii I 1 ly so bittera denounced the evila evils of i d Y acing are ellent silent abbit ab ut tile ball and lio honored nored hurch church beope crowd the present month so full of tiled the dance a ace that anere reems to hi ba no ces aaion of he tile nightly Ka ira it kuust be granted grantell gran that hoe thoe who tho object to iho dad active e and the ballroom hive have much ground f fir fr r compliant A we may tie BO so absolutely gevea gaea to this form f pleasure thit that it b comes only evil and to excessive elci t nive and unseasonable that actual in is committed in con etc ion with it but tins this may bie batad ald of all honest and pure recreations ii bulged in under restrictions res aki ions dancing la Is of real iga it cultivates frare and ina and gives balf under such much re strict lois ir it in is productive of physical ply oleal and mental health and is by no indars attile with alth reli goo oo 00 the tito church would di well to cut loose from fanaticism and exorcise exercise a wise cun troll and beni dicent influence over tills CIAS of it is hardly short of crime I 1 r women t to 10 live the tile fashionable MO of the tile day connected with ith the evil of late hours ift tile evil arising from the tile erces excessive a to number of balls given I 1 would have every danco dance begin liko like the diamatis dramatis dra matis performance or the opra op ra ri at eight and end at eleven oua out balla balls should ba unqualifiedly condemned tho the private dancing parties where here the a ere are pure should be ile encouraged extravagate of preparation and immodesty of dress aro are among the lh accompaniments of bills which chuld ba avoided but these remarks anty be applied to a church reception rei rev option eption as will is as to a ball A protest should b bi nude made by the tile christian chu ch oil against arfa inet the line uso of wili wine at public bills both before and affee I 1 oclo k the centennial ball wasa was a sli cliame artle and a disgrace to the tile city of new now york wine at rt private aither ings roy bo be left to pomonal pe judgment but there should be no liberty of judgment in these large gatherings my aly ardvini as a minister it then danca dance but daue dano at proper hours with proper company let your pleasure be not in extravagant diplas di dis but in simplicity and grace gram but do tempera temperance uce 11 11 I 1 I 1 t 1 bakk so |
