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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH IS, 1897.
Is th e Bible Infallible?
to w hether the in errancy of th e
King .James tran slatio n was swal-
— F or t h e T orch of R e a so n .
À À À À À À A A A A
The posiliou taken by the Rev. 1,,Wed by all present or not. One
Dr. Lym an Abbott in his recent old brother, Dr. Shaffer shook his
pulpit essays on certain books and ^nger in Dr. Buckley’s face and sug-
.«•aytngs of the bible and especially £es' e<i that if l i e d »ubted the in lal-
the story of Jo n ah and the whale Ability of the bible, he had better
in which he claim s th a t it is not get out of the church.
the recital of a real happening, but
^)r- harles H. Eaton holds th a t
rath e r a satire conceived in the
denial of the infallibility of the
spirit of o riental im agination and bible is nothing new even in M eth-
told to convey a m oral lesson, th e o<bsm . He says th a t there are few
same as parables are told in the H ergym en who believe in the
New T estam ent, has not only sti« - absolute inerrancy of th e scriptures
D on't have to take our word for it, when we say
red up quite a controversy in his a,,<^ 'b a t the heretic of today is not
we lia\Q a better and larger stock of new goods th an
own church an d denom inatio;., ’be m an who takes Dr. B uckley's
ever before, for the m erchandise is here to speak for
but in all other orthodox denomi- P°sbion, but the m an who opposes
itself, and tor us. Of course we don t m ean th a t you
nations with which it has come in ¡C be was, nevertheless, opposed to
would th in k our ads deceptive, for we have alw ays
contact. One of tlie greatest of the ^he proposition of Dr. B uckley to
en<h*a\oied to m ake them the opposite. You m ig h t
orthodox denom inations in the 8U,'niit th e question to a vote so
th in k how ever th a t we were over-enthusiastic. Y ou’ll
world is the m ethodist, and one of 'b a t finally, when the vote was
en th u se too when you see the new goods. H onestly
the most influential men in th a t c a b« <1, there was hut one m an to
we are very proud of our stock, and believe th e styles
denom ination is the Rev. Dr. Jam es resPOI«d and say th a t he swallowed
will please you, and the prices interest you. * Jjp *
M. Buckley, editor of the New’ Y ork the hible from -G enesis to Revela-
C hristian Advocate, th e leading t 'on the original Hebrew’, Greek,
organ of the m ethodist church, so ^ in g J a m e s ’ tran slatio n , and all.
Dr A bbott having m ade the in itia l 1 be result of th e m eeting will un-
m otion in his recent essays a t a doubted ly give Dr. Abbott a new
m eeting of m ethodist clergym an bomb, and he is already urging his
F eb ru ary 15, Dr. Buckley rose to v' ews bi regard to the hook of E e­
give it a hearty w’elcome an d second, desiastes, which are also likely to
but the business of the m eeting on
” P a 8ph ited controversy in all
Corner Main & W ater Sts.
S ilverton, Oregon.
tin s occasion was to listen to an orthodox churches. It does not
addret-s from the Rev. Dr. C urtis seeni possible th a t intelligent men
president of the Drew Theological believe all th a t is recorded in the
♦Seminary, an d his subject was,
testam ent. All of these m inis-
“ Hmv Christian men niay satisfy -prs <>ught to know’ th a t these books
them selves th a t the bible is a di- ascribed to Moses were not w ritten
rect revelation from God ” At the u n 'il hundreds of years after his
conclusion of the reading of this d e a th ,a n d were in course of proced- D E A L E R IN
essay, Dr. Buckly offered some "re for several hundred years, being
C hem icals, Drugs,
com m ents, an d after giving a left th e works of m any authors,
M edicine, Toilet A rticles,
handed com plim ent to Dr. C urtis,
J oel M. B erry .
P erfu m ery and Soaps, S tationery,
lie said, “ I am not altogether satis-
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S a y s th e A gnostic Journal.
P atent M edicines, P ain ts and Oils,
tied w ith w h a t my learned brother
has said; his topic was, ‘How chris-
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Com bs and Brushes.
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A correspondent, w riting to a
tian men m ay satisfy them selves
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contem porary, draw s up the f«dlow-
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• .. im peachm ent . of e n those brothers
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_ a t the bible is a d n ect revelation ing
from G od.
He has perhaps an- in C hrist, the anglican bishops:
swered th a t question satisfactorily
1810. Not a single Bishop voted
to some, hut he has not touche«!
abolish cap ital punishm ent for
upon th e all im p o rta n t question «¡eab'.g articles of th e value of five
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shillings. Seven Bishops helped to
th a t is now ag itatin g th e entire reject p
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Christian world “ to w it.”
How
1821. * 25 Bishops helped to keep
m ay the ou Udders, the u n-ehristian the Roman C atholics out of Barlin-
men the unbelieving people, be as- tnent.
DEALERS IN
sured th a t the bible is infallible an d ,
21 Bishops voted a g a in *
a d reel revelation from God. t h a t 12 voted jn fav,)Ur ,,{ ¡t a J
is the question we w ant answered, against.
He then went on to state th a t he
1834. 22 voted to keep their fel-
did not believe the E nglish ver- Dw C hristians (dissenters) out of
Seeing is Believing.
You
Yours to Please,
A. WOLF & SON.
J. E. Hammond,
DRUGGIST,
Silverton, Oregon.
Cusiter & Davenport
G E N E R A L M E R C H A N D IS E
is»« of the bible to be infallible, 'he Universities.
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loo8. 24 voted against church
contains errors’ says he “ and I rales abolition.
Corner Hain <& W ater S ts.
do not believe th a t there are four
men present who would give an
unconditional indorsem ent to the
English version, if there are, and
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xir.i .k
'hey a te looking for the fifth, they
may count me o u t.” It is said th a t
if Dr. Buckley had jum ped into this
preacher’s m eeting with a revolver
m one h an d an d a bowie k n ife in
tue other, he could not have created
more excitem ent th an he did w ith
this verbal explosion. Nearly every
m inister present was in sta n tly on
his feet shouting “ heresy.” T h -y
b.deD r. Buckley retract l..s words,
11 *t instea I of d ring th a t lie, de-
•Rinded a vote on th e «¡uestion as
A nd lim e alter tim e and again
and again on these and like ques-
dons ultim ately settleil in favor
c‘hritstian equality, the Bishops
helped to keep hack a n d frustrate
n atio n al rH, igion bv tlleir vot,.s
speeches in the H ouse of Lords;
w hilst, when, as in 1883, a cru elty
an im als bill was in the House
D "-'1». »nd was lost by only 1»
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votes, not one of tlm Bishops either
voted or spoke on the subject.
To take questions of lives of
inen, women, and children «luring
the last th irty years, 8,(XX),000 of
toilers have been killed and in­
ju red —«luring the W’hole of that
period not one bishop has voted in
favor of the toiler against the great
cap italist iuterest.
JOHN HICKS,
S ilverton , Oregon.
SAMUEL A flE S ,
Hicks & Ames.
: DEALERS I N :
HARDWARE, TINWARE,
Stoves, A g ricu ltu ral Im plem ents, G uns, F ish in g
Tackle, C utlery, and S porting Goods.
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