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Reader “is not aware that the church suffered seriously” by the pub. lication of the “ Essays and Reviews.” “'ho said it did sufler? He. would have us infer that the Presbyterian Church sntfered greatly by the Toron- to profeawr's alleged heresy. Now when confronted by the same thing in U! own church, he is not aware that .. . church has suffered in consequence. Again, he SL'PPOSI-zs I have not read certain books on the “Tractarian Movement.” In the midst of his heat that supposition is quite cool. Read- er’s arrogant assumption of superior knowledge would be amusing if it were not so ridiculous. Has he a “ corner ” on these books and papers ? Does he imagine they are not to be found out- side of his library ? Does it make any diflerente whether I have read them or not. 9 Did I misrepresent any fact? It not discuss the fact and not thel writer. I would remind him of thel old Latin Prm erb, " Dread the man of: one book." It was old Hobbes that once said when twitted about not read- ing many books, “If I had read as many books as other men, I would have been as ignorant as Other men. ” “'ere I to say that if I had read as! many books on 03' LY one side of thisl subject as Reader appears to have! read I would ha\e beenas ignorant as he of the question as a whole, I should probably be stating the truth, but I : forbear. l “'hetherl know one language or many is not material to the present discussion. Reader’s admission that I know something of one is a good deal coming from him. It is well to know even one. I regret I cannot return the compliment. Reader is like some German theological writers of the last century of whom it was said they knew “little German and less Greek.” If Reader will substitute “ English” for “German” in the phrase, he will have his own position exactly. The truth is that probably I am master of as many languages as Reader is and i I see no use in raising such a question. It is not pertinent to the discussion. At the outset let me say that. next to the personal tone, what strikes me most strongly in Reader’s letter is his want of grasp of the subject, and his utter disregard for any logical connec- tion between his inferences and the data from which these inferences are DEAR EnrroR,â€"The hot spell of a few weeks ago had one bad etfect. It raised the temperature of your corres- pondent, Reader, to the boiling point. He has, metaphorically dofled his coat and pitched into me like “two of a kind.” The escape of gas was remark- able. I would ask him to don his coat again and talk sensibly. Heat is not argument and personal vituperation does not assist the “feast of reason and the flow of soul." The questions under discussion relate to matters of fact, not personal opinions. Let him apply himself to these facts and dis- cuss them quietly, honestly, dispas~ sionately. and his frenzied personal re- marks will cease and his logic be more convincing. His letter reminds me of the senior lawyer's advice to his jun- ior, “ When you have no case abuse the defendant’s counsel.” But. let me say, that I regret the personal turn which Reader's letter compels me to adopt in this reply and review. I had expected that such a subject could be discussed in a calm, judicial spirit, but the tone of contempt and superiority assumed by Reader forces a mode of warfare exceedingly distasteful to me. A. 3. Reviews Reader’s Letter of July 10th. DURHAM CHRONICLE DURHAM, AUGUST 7TH, 1902. MacFarlane 6: C0. Save the Potatoes Oor’a was bought this spring, is new- ly nude and is guaranteed. Buy hora. 20c t lb. PARIS GREEN THAT RELIGIOUS TANGLE. W. IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. Dnvooms AND Boommns. othersâ€"but this is the most populor, and will do the work. if it is fresh wd strong. Bet them yourself. Don’t let the huge do it. Kill the huge. Kill them to etey killed. Sev- eral things thu sell will do it. is one of them, for there no The phrase, ‘Teligious feeling” also, is still troubling him. It is of his own using. Light is beginning to dawn on him here also. It will he remembered that Reader objected to my use of the phrase, “change of heart.” because it was not found in Scripture. I object- ed to his use of “religious feeling ” on exactly the same grounds. That was all there was to it. I contended that Scripure ideas could be expressed in other than Scripture language. I am! glad thotReadex-admita the principle! ery soul that is saved is the essential point, and Reader, instead of meta- physically refining the meaning out of existence had better direct his ener- gies to secure such a change. for him- self and then to convince others of its absolute necessity to eternal salvation. \Vhen he comes before the Great \Vhite Throne it will not sufliee to say he was “a good Churchman. "â€"a com- mon phrase in the mouth of someâ€"he must be a Christian. A “change of heart” is necessary to he a Christian, though not necessary to he a Church- man. Dr. Horace Bushnell, surely as good an authority aseven the Bishop of Hur- on, in a sermon on Regeneration some dozen times uses the words in this sense. The following paragraph speaks for itself:â€"“ Hence it is that so much is said of the heart in the Gospel, and of a change of the heart, for it is what proceeds out of the heart that deflleth the man. The meaning is, not that Christianity proposes to give us a new organ of soul or to extract one member of the soul and insert another, but that it will change the love of the heart. A man’s love is the same thing as a' ’man's heart.” This is the sense in which the phrase was first used. I still maintain this to be the correct sense and accurately describes what a lost sinner must experience when he is saved by Grace. If theologians who love the externals of religion more than the real core of the Gospel give explanations that do not explain and befog instead of enlighten, on their own shoulders he the responsibility. That a change of heart, a change of the heart’s love must take place in ev- new pair of boots instead of an old pair is a change of boots, and so on- So also being BORN AGAIN is a change of heart, a change of the love, under- standing etc., of the heart, the de- throning of the old and the enthroning of the new principles in the life or in the heart. A very careful writer de- fines Conversion as "the conscious and manifest CHASGE from evil to good.” ' as “the source of wit, understanding. love, courage. grief and pleasure.” Hence arise many meanings of the word in Scripture. but this one fundamental one is suficient for the present pur- pose. By consulting any good Diction- ary, it will be seen that the word “change” has many meanings among which the two following are perhaps the most common and explicit. (1) To put, place, take or substitute one thing instead of another. (2) To pass from one state or phase to another. These two meanings run side by side all thro’ our literature. The first is the change from one thing to another thing whol- , ly different. The second is the change of a thing to a somewhat different thing without losing its identity. In both cases it is a CHANGE. That is the point. Reader recognizes only one of these meanings as a “change” name- ly the second. The first is at variance with his theory, hence he rejects it. 42 The root idea, however, is the putting i one thing in place of another. \Ve l CHANGE a thing by putting another in ; its place. Change consists simply in; ceasing to be the same. A king chang- ’ es his ministers. A man changes his 5 resndence. \Vhat does Reader do when l I he changes his clothes ? Does he put ‘ on other clothes, or does his suit ; glide or grow or “change” into anoth- i er suitâ€"the same, yet different I" If; the latter, he would resemble the l moon in changing her phases. Fernald, l Crabbe and Taylor in their “ Syno- . nyms” recognize these meanings and I uses. So. the International, Encyclo- pa-dic. the Imperial and the Standard ! Dictionaries. Better authority than‘ there there is none. Now, from this: it follows, whether Reader believes it or not, that when God gives a man a new heart, that is a “change of heart.” A new heart instead of the old heart is a change of heart just as surely as at First, it seems necessary to explain that the Hebrews look upon theHEAB'r phrase, “change of heart.” I am sor- ryforhim. Thereare none so blind as those that will not see. I hope his knowledge of the thing itself is greater than his knowledge of the doctrine in- volved or of the meaning of the lan- guage used. So long as he experiences a saving “change of heart” literally and theologically it will not matter much whether he knows the doctrine or not. That he has as yet experienced such a change or any kindred one is extremely doubtful. His letter does not manifest those graces of the Spirit ~good temper, fairness, honesty etc., which invariably follow as the fruit the blossom, the change of heart indi- catcd. For his enlightenment, as pro- mised, I shall try to explain what seems so dark to him. I am sure all‘ the other readers of the CHRONICLE ‘ thoroughly understand what is meant. 1 I crave their patience therefore. 1 Reader is still befogged with the 1 \Vith regard to the failure of the 3 Presbyterian system Reader waxes eloquent. He seems to regard this as 1 a good thing. I am truly sorry for his - spirit. It would give me great joy to see his church prosper where it was doing good. It is a public calamity when any society or institution whose aim is the uplifting of humanity fails in any sense in its work. This note of > triumph from Reader proclaims him a I greater lover of his church than of the 5 humanity for which his church exists. ' But let us see whether the failure is so -' bad as Reader claims, whether it was > worse than that of his own beloved » church during the period he writes . about. Dr. Raffles published his “Tour on the Continent ” in 1817. That was at the close of a periodâ€"almost a century of unexampled spiritual de- clension. Not only was this dcclension seen and felt on the continent but in England as well. All the churches, Calvinist, Lutheran and Episcopal felt the decadence. In the Anglican Church during the early part of the preceding century the state of reli- gion was in a most deplorable state. One able historian, himself an Angli- can, thus speaks of itzâ€"“A large num- ber of prelates were mere \Vhig parti- sans with no higher aim than that of promotion. A “Welsh bishop avowed that he had seen his diocese but once, and habitually resided at the lakes of \Vestmoreland. The system of plural- ities turned the wealthier and more learned of the priesthood into ab- sentees, while the bulk of them were indolent, poor and without social con- sideration. A shrewd, if prejudiced, observer brands the English clergy of I the day as the most lifeless in Europe, | the most remiss of their labors in pri- vate, and the least severe in their lives. ' * * There was no doubt a re- l volt against religion and against, Churches, in both the extremes of En- glish Society. In the higher circles ‘everyone laughs.’ said Montesquieu, on his visit to England. ‘if one talks of religion.’ Of the prominent statesmen of the time the greater part were un- believers in any form of Christianity.” But I draw the veil on much more in the same yei n. Reader should mad Macaulay, who “gives the facts,” for the State 1! the chunk at this pawl. ~ I â€"â€"WW\U Reader rejoices that the Presbyterian ;Assembly has a committee at work iupon a Prayer Book. This I do not Ideny, hence will not rob him of his great joy. It is well to remember» however, that the Assembly does not sanction such a hook for general use in its congregations. Its advocates simply express the hope that it may be found helpful in districts and unset- tled communities in which there is no settled pastor, districts in which ser- vices are conducted by ordinary unlet- tered people. This is the attitude of the Assembly to the “Aids to Public “'orship” and if Reader chooses to place the Anglican people in the same class with these “simple honest folk” that require such aids, then I have no reason to object to his choice. The same may be said about the “Manual of Family \Vorship.” From several Anglican ministers I have learned that family worship is not very general in their congregations. If this be so, with so excellent a Manual as the Book of Common Prayer, what hope that the introduction of any such manual would revive the practice in Presbyte- rian homes where it has fallen into disuse. fornowhe turns round and justifies hisownuseof the phrase by a long list of quotations from secular writ. than his consistency. His reference to Ephesians IV ; 19. is unfortunate for his earlier contention. If he brushes the cobwebs 03 his Greek, or ’even reads the English in relation to its context, he will find that the phrase “past feeling” in this passage does not mean “religious feeling” in the sense used by himself and by all his quoted authors without exception. Reader, as a High Church Episcopalian, as he undoubtedly is, and believing as he does in an “authoritative” religious government should be the last to ap- peal to religious feeling as atest of our spiritual condition. This the Scrip- tum never do. They do not say I “feel” whom I have believed. “’e, I “feel” that we have passed from death; lunto life. Ye shall “feel” the truth. p That ye may ‘feel” the love of Christ, [etc., but in each case it is “know.” FEELING 13 too variable, too superfi- cial. We must know these things. Besides all this, if we reduce religion to what is properly called religious feeling,â€"to that feeling which, though very real, is somewhat vague, some- what uncertain in its object, to that feeling which addresses itself at one time to the things of the external world and at another to the things which pertain to the inmost recesses of the soul, to-day to the imagination, to-morrow to the mysteries of the fu- ture, which wanders everywhere seek- ing rest and finds it not. If this fluc- tuating, doubtful thing he religion, it cannot. accmnmodate itself “to any system of precepts, of discipline, of forms: will prevent it in a word from giving birth to a society, to a religious government.” This would, indeed, he a sore calamity to Reader and those like him, who believe in Authority as the ruling principle of Church Govern- Inent. ates in good posi- bven more succoss. _ n in any previous wear. Those desiring the be" in businpse Pduoation RhOuld attend our school. “’rite for nnvnlnn-n- A school that W. S. DAVIDSON, Solicitor for above named Ac And take Notice that after the said date the sand Administratrix will proceed to dis- tribute the assets of the said deceased amen the parties entitled thereto, having recur only t9 the claims of which she shall then have notice. Dgted this 4th day of Aug , _ _..- ----- Viv.“ u-) "I UUIIU A. D. 190:. are required to send by post prepnid. or to deliver to Mar Jane Livmg- ston. the sdministratrix of t e said estate. or to the undersigned W. S. Davidson, Solicitor for the said Administrstrix. on or before September tst 12. their names, sddresses and descriptions with full partic- ulars of their chims and the nature of the security (if any) held by them duly vei ified. In the Surrogate Court of the County of Grey. In the Matter of the Estate of Andrew Livingston, late of the Township of Bentinck, in the County of Grey, Farmer. Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuanttn R. S. O. 1897 Chap 129. Sec. 38nd amending acts that all persons having any claim against the estate of the said Andrew Livingston, deceased. who (liednon or about the thirtieth day of June 1m: -..- ..-- â€"â€"9 â€"_.â€"vâ€"--- V yu‘. UV, L _ betu°eenBurham and Orchard.a purse containmg between fifty pad sixpy dollars. the return half of a raxlway ticket from Guelph and other papers. Finder wnll re- ceive the above reward on returning it to the owner. E. A. ROWE. Baker, Aug. 5th, 1%: tf. Durham, Ont. Notice to Creditors A few of the people from Ebenezer appointment attended the Quarterly services in Proton on Sunday last. The smiling countenance of Mr. R. Scott was seen in this vicinity last Saturday. Mr. S. taking is orders for enlarged photos and we believe he has been quite successful since commenc- ing this work. Mr. Angus McDonald who, for sev- eral years has made his home in Al- aska, is at present staying at his old home on the townliue. We believe he intends remaining for some timc. Miss Bella Weir is visiting friends in Glenelg this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tucker of Cey- lon visited friends in this part one day last week. Among those visited was Mrs. Susan Tucker, who, we are sorry to say is not improving any in health. lsenting bodies in England at that time. According to Reader, Presby- terianism on the Continent produced Unitarianism. According to history Anglicanism in England produced I practical Atheism, Which was worse E I leave Reader to decide. If some {Wesley has stirred up the Chntinen- 7 tal churches, as in England, Dr. Rafies would probaby have found their con- dition as flourishing in 1817 as that of the English Church. If Reader had looked deeper into history he would not, if he were honest. accuse any par- ticular church of the 18th Century of spiritual deadness, without including in the same category all the other churches as well. But since that time what do we find ? Is the Presbyterian church today producing worse fruit than the Anglican ? A comparison ofl the two during the past century would be instructive and abundantly prove that whatever the system produced in the 18th century, the Presbyterian church has made remarkable progress at home and abroad. By way of illus- tration I cite but one instance, that of our own Canadian Church since the Union in 1875, From 1875 to 1901, the number of congregations increased from 706 to 1781, the number of minis- ters from 579 to 1368, the number of com municants from 88288to 219470, and the total contributions from $982 6'2 to $2,857,489. If the Anglican (‘hurch can show similar increases, I for one will rejoice. At this time began the revival under Whitfield and Wesley. This revival “saved the Church of England fran decay.”, and possibly from death. The same mightbesaid of the great dis- senting bodies in England at that CSTâ€"WEDNESDAY. JULY 30 Machine Oil. H m'ness ()il. 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