Article April 5, 1900 Issue

Religious Items

The Church Standard, organ of the Episcopal church in Philadelphia, devotes nearly two pages to an editorial examination of the arguments. of "opponents of prayer," dealing largely with the doubts of church members themselves as to the propriety of petitioning God for any aid which would involve a violation of the so-called natural order of things to answer. The following few sentences seem to convey the substance of the editor's convictions: "God is unchangeable. True.... But we mean that He is unchangeable in the principle of His actions.... He acts towards a man who repents otherwise than had the man remained impenitent, not because He has changed, but because He has not changed."

In a sermon published in the (Baptist) Watchman, Boston, that was preached by John Caird, D.D., LL.D., dealing with the subject of freedom through knowledge of the Truth, this sentence is found: "For as all things are a bondage to us till our hearts be in them, as our work in life, our profession, our calling, our social duties and relations, the very ties of home and kindred are a drag upon us, if our heart be not in them; so our religion can then only cease to be a yoke upon our necks, a heavy, servile task-work, when our whole nature—mind, heart, soul, the convictions of our reason, the witness of our conscience, the constraining force of our affections—go with it."

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