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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Kentucky Library Research Collections Library Special Collections 5-1852 The South African Church Magazine and Ecclesiastical Review Kentucky Library Research Collections Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_kl_non_mat Part of the Christianity Commons, History Commons, History of Christianity Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kentucky Library Research Collections by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. f J'ieiCu ' / <s-^ / Vol. IZZ], fNo. 5. SOUTH AFRICAN churce: magazine m AND MAY, 1852. Ecr/tsi'u una esi, qua in multittidintm lutiua incremenlo lacunditiitf €Ste>,dUvr ; p,omodo sulk wuUi radii, sed Itanen vnum; et rami arboris multt, sed robur unum t^aei radice fandatum. i>, (nPniAS. •€ape Coton A. S. Robertson, Heerkngracht. W. L. Samuoks, PLEii-sTRrxr, ASD A. H, Hewitt & Sos, St. G£J)rge'&-stjieet. iUntion J. UlCHARDSO*, 23, "CcKBNBJIJt,. CONTENTS. What are the Essentials of Christianity ? Page 129 A Chapter on Churches, - ---- .. 134 Biography. T. F. Biixton, _--- „ 137 Ecclesiastical Councils, - - - - - „ H2 Tl Notes from a Clergyman's Parochial Visiting Book, Ch. 26, „ 144 SOUTH ; The Lodire in the Wilderness, - - -- » 151 Poiltjiy:—Here we Best, __-- „ 153 Translation of Latin Hymn, „ 154 cHimcii I Revir-ws:—The Churchman's Year Book for 1852, lb. The Book of Church History, - 155 Ways of overcnmiiiii Teiipptulioii, 156 MA"^ ^torips on th'' Lord's Prayei, - „ lb. Vol. in. Nrvvs ('onf.cctcd with the Diocese of Cape Town, 157 Home News, ------- 158 Colonial and Forei-^n News, . .-- .. 159 WHAT AEE THE ESSE^ Zfotioe to Correspondents atxd Subscribers- These are days ^ The Utter of "Clericus" in reply to the " Pmi'osal for a Diocesan Par abotU the Wess^ugs of sonage Fund " came lo hand too late for insertion iii ilie iiresent Number. from the letter, more tha^ "Missions ill Indirt," No. 3, received. natiers to exaaiime tar •#* As p-iynientR for printing, &c. have lo be niaiie monthly, .md tlie pcstagp of country copies to be paid each issue, we call the notice of Sub scribers 10 the S.A. C. Magazine lo the necessity ofSubscripdons being paid ill iidvaiice. Ti.e Proprietor will be obliged by ihe pay ment ofSubscriptions tor 185'2. and ofarrears/or 1851. aisungSr^e^';ltion.ofmanku.d b; AH commiinicaiion«,an<l Books forwarded for review, should beaddressed to the Ediiorof ihe S. A Church Magazine, al >Jr. Sammoks, 11, Plem- religious vie«s, ) »P sireet, Cape Town. who has espoused the u .ense is synonymoiis wt Hvurs appointedfor Divi'-e Strvice tind the Ad"'in!slration ofthe ^acra- disposed to disliDgu^h ^ men's, al St. George's Cathedral Churchy Cupe Towti. SUNDAY,—Morning Service commences at 11; Kvtning Service atA 5:.lr£:;S"S phSl 6. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday MoRKl^GS, Service tom- mences athalf-past 8 o'clock. Wednesday, Friday, and the Holy ofleat practic^U import, Days, at 11. Ihe current opm>on» ' Evening Service, throughout the week, commences al half-past 6 . cWiliMtiou , o'clock. On Wednesday Evening, a Lecture is delivered. The Holy Commuhion is administered every Sxjkday through out the year. of tlie age, a ; Holy Baptismon the Mornings of Wednesday and Fuiday. Role, pavamouot Seats are reserved at i!ie Cathedral for \ isiiors, and may bebadges ^ Se UBhter per.od>=al U, chori-c, on application to llie Sexton at the time of service. W. A. NEWMAN, M.A., Dean. - Page 129 - „ 134 - ,, 137 142 siting THE 144 161 SOUTH AFRICA N' 153 154 1852, ib. CHIJKCII MAOAZINE. 155 156 ib. Vol. 111. MAY, 1852, No. 5. Wl). 157 158 159 WHAT ARE THE ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIANITY? cribers- No. V. T a Diocesan Par- These are days when we constaully bear a great deol said resent Nunibfr. about tbe blessiugs of civilization. It will be a deviation from the lellev, more than froui tbespirir, of the title of these monthly, iind tJie papers to examine bo«- far the vital interests of religion may 'le noticeof Sub- ipiions being paid be in danger from some of the current opinions aud phraseo of Subscriptions logy on this subject. For though it by no ujeaiis follows that, because a man denies civilization, apart and as 'uld be addresser) distinguished from religion, to be by itself equal to the moral 'ONs, 11, piein. renovation of manl<ind, he will thereiove be correct in all his religious views, yet, practically, it is quite certain that one who has espoused the idea that civilization in the popular ofthe Sacra' sense is synonymous with human happiness will not be OWJI, disposed to distinguish carefully even one form of religion ing Service at j from another, much less the positive and permanent parts of the true from the accidental and temporary pails: so that, 3S, Service«om- in truth, our present inquiry, as compared with the general and the HoJy design of these papers, involves preliminary considerations of great practical importance. ai hajf.past 6 The current opinions and phraseology on the subject of civilization above referred to ave too well Vnovvn to require to be stated afresh here. Besides it is not any particular •21- I KDAY tlirough- expression on the subject that is to be feared, so much as r. the subtle influence of unexpressed opinions. It is the temper be hAdjree ^ of the age, a highly civilized age, to make civilization its sole, pAramounl Genius; almost every newspaper, and all I-A., Dean. the lighter periodical liievature reflects this temper; conver- 17 "T"' 130 salion is deeply imbued wUli it; public oratory teems with it exhibits a clear example in th od 7iavseam; and inauy good men who would be the last, if ofits existence the desceuctat ihey knew it, lo commit themselves to anv course of conduct aloof from the vest of their br or expression ol opinions which would be likely in the uresented an exception to t remotest degree to damage the interests of revealed religion, around them. At length on. are j'et perplexed by the mixed nature of the subject; tliev was done away in the violalu cannot but acknowledge the blessings of civilization; they apparently been in force In may doubt, perhaps, whether a civilized people can recede intermarriages with the ungo from any point of their hard-won position without deteriora universal. "The earth was tion in all ways; at the same time they ste the dangers almost total destruction of tn. arising from the highly artificial character of the more orna' the only method that remai mentzd parts of civilization lo themseli'es, und they may manner of dealing with the fear their influence on others; but exactly where to draw us precisely the same less( ihe line they do not see; they fear to do evil that good may disuniting power of sin, dil come; and before ihey have made np their minds what towards the ante-diluvians ii c(ii:rse tiiey will take, the tide of custom has snclu^d them is closely connected with ou into the crowd, and, aliens the while in heart, they are seen vians appear to have eutere like others kneeling at the foot of the Idol. The objectof sense of at least the ihe following remarlfs will not have been missed, if, by doubt the memory of the a helping lo clear the reader's conceptions, they should tend incuited the dreaaful punt to vender his footing along the perilous pathway of human down with considerable di life at all firnjer and surer. their descendants. At all Before we can expect to understand the interdependence that the post-diluvian wond of civilization and religion, we must be sure that we know large empire; and, appavei what civilization means. Every one, of course, understands 10 guard, by previous con by it various and very important modes and conditions of that state of utter pobtica human advancement: but the term is loosely used, and no the flood. But this alieini doubt the idea represented by it is mostly vague: how would of God's siipvemacy, and we define it? Whiit are pnrfs of the cninples idea which was specially punished 1 il suggests? \Ve will first attempt to answer this question. whether preternatural or No one can doubt that mankind have an innate tendency that famous dispersion f»ot lo social and political combination, and that it must always nations and languages tha have been intended that all human progress should go hand second time ihe smfulnei in hand with tlie due management of this tendency. Further, namval political tendenc: it is easy to conceive that, even if man had retained his meals as already existed, original rectitude, and, with that, his original intellectual except ou the one basis c purity and power, political emergencies raiglit constantly namely, of obedience to have arisen from the increasing complexity of human alfairs first grand poliucal d.sl. of sufficient intricacy to afford scope for constant moral disci was ll.is, tbalaretuvn to pline, and that man's advancement as a moral crealtire might li'ssnessiheftvslbeginmngsot^cwas prevented have depended in no small degree on the exercise thus fiu'- nished. But the history of the world shews, what might have been inferred a priori, tliat sin, in the degree in which il attaining to its old he.gh prevails, is incompatible wiih compact political organization. The ante-diluviau world, however obscure its general hisiorv, • Gen: Ti- 11. 131 ilh ii exhibits a clear example in this respect.