THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 4, 1899.
violet clouds; Odysesseus, stripped
of his t»eggar’8 raiment and en
dowed with fresh youth and beauty
bv the dawn goddess, Athene, en-
¿ages in no doubtful conflict as he
r tises the bow which none but him
self can bend. Nor is there less
virtue in the spear of Achilleus, in
the swords of Persius and Sigara,
in Roland’s stout blade, Durandel,
or in the brand Excalibur, with
which Sir Belvedere was so loth to
part. All these are solar weapons,
and so, too, are the arrows of Tell
and Palnatokit, Egil and Hemin-
ger, and William of . Cloudeslee,
whose surname proclaims him an
inhabitant of Phaiakian land.
William Tell, whether of Cloud-
land or of Altdorf, is the last re
flection of the beneticient divinity
of daytime and summer, con-
strained for a while to obey the
caprice of the powers of cold and
darkness, as Apollo served Lao-
rnedor, and Herakles did the bid
ding of Euristheus. His solar
character is well preserved even in
the sequel of the Swiss legend, in
which he appears no less skillful as
a steersman than as an archer,
and in which, after traversing, like
I)agon, the tempestuous sea of
night, he leaps at daybreak in re
gained freedom upon the land and
strikes down the oppressor who
has held him in bondage.”
Myths like that of William Tell
are intellectual links that connect,
us with Aryan ancestors of the far
distant past.
gave no more light than the moon,
although there were no clouds to
obscure it!” (This was a Christ-
mas sermon reported by the Post.)
I. Kings, 21:23: “Now therefore,
behold, the Lord hath put a lying
spirit into the mouths of all these
his prophets.”
M. M. T.
A H arm less H allucination.
leads back to the fatal fact that
councils composed of fallible men
compiled the Protestant and the
Catholic Bibles and descril>ed them
as the infallible word of God. But
when men claim infallibility for
the Bible and nevertheless d<> not
agree as to what the Bible is, how
can the world be expected tp treat
as infallible that upon which the
councils of rival churches have not
agreed, are not today agreed and
are never likely to be agreed? It
,, looks
. „ very much , as if
.. the world
,,
wouW fina||y conclode tbat lhe le88
said about' the infallibility of a
book compiled by fallible men who
could not agree about what was in
spired, the better. Under these
circumstances, there must always
be a battle between Roman Catho
lic and Protestant, and Dr. Briggs
will never see his expectation of
Christian unity realized.—[Ore
gonian.
3
RIGHT
LIVING
IS A BOOK O F
S ix ty
E x c e lle n t
C lia p te rs
Professor Charles A. Briggs, the
famous Presbyterian
heretic, ’ at a
J
recent meeting of Congregat.onal-
ieu in New York, said:
“If the Roman Catholic will re
cognize the authority of the Bible
as he ought to and Protestants will
On th e follow ing and
recognize the authority of the
k in d red S u b jects:
church as they should, they will
not have so much objection to one
S e lf C o n tro l
another; whatever differences there
may have been will eventually dis
S e lf R esp ect
appear.”
W h a t is M o ra lity
To this utterance the Sacred
Heart Review (Roman Catholic)
W h a t is Ignorance
Faithful
to
His
Craft.
makes answer as follows:
Fraud a C rim e
“Of course, Catholics can never
Dwig(it L. Moody, the great!
recognize the Protestant, notion of evangelist, who is now at the | H a b it, 2 n d N a tu re
the Bible and the Bible alone with Avenue church, in Chicago, saving
out note or comment, and the doc souls from hell, recently made a P oliteness
tor knows that perfectly w’ell. He dash at the higher critics, who dis W isdom
knows that the authority of the cover inharmony, lack of historical
. e tc .
church to which he exhorts his fel accuracy and evidences of barbaric
low Protestants is perfectly incom origin in “God’s Holy Word.”
One of these c h a p te rs is
patible with the right of private After showing the glorious results1
W orth m ore to
h
interpretation of «the Scriptures. of revivals in which he had figured,
Y oung and old th a n th e
They can no more coalesce than oil how he was saved in one of them,
P r i c e o f th e hook.
and water. If you claim the right he launched forth:
of private interpretation, you dis
“You can’t get converts by pick
. . . IT SHOULD BE IN . .
card authority. If you choose au ing the Bible to pieces. When
thority, you necessarily discard people come to you for bread and
private interpretation. Unity with butter you mustn’t give them the
A “ L ying Spirit.”
out authority is impossible. There sawdust of astronomy or geology.
In a recent encyclical, Leo XIIT. can he no compromise, and Dr. A man won’t get fat on cobble
says: “Civilization would have Briggs knows it.”
stones. A word to you women.
perished without papal authority
The answer of this Roman Cath When you hear a preacher begin
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over might; pure humanitarianism unanswerable. Roman Catholic bib and get out as quick as Lot’s wife, b ou nd c o p y, p o s t p a id .
could not assure real and lasting lical critics describe the English and don’t look behind as she did.
prosperity. An attempt is even authorized version of the Scriptures Get right up and get out. I tell
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now perceptible to withdraw civili as “a Protestant translation, incor you that the time has come for the
zation from the influence of Chris rect and dishonest, of such books people to speak out and with no
-A D U R E S S -
tianity.”—[From the Post of Wash only as Protestants choose to recog uncertain sound on this tearing of
ington, D. C.
nize.” This is what the Catholic the Bible to rags and tatters.”
The more we get rid of Christi press thinks of the Protestant
Raising his voice to a shout he S ilverton
O regon
anity, the stronger, more vigorous Bible. On the other hand, the reached the climax, holding the
and purer civilization will he. Dr. Protestant biblical critics denounce sacred book aloft:
Roberts, of a Presbyterian commis the Vulgate and Douay version of “Stick to the Bible! Stick to the
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ization?
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scholarly accuracy to either the ive Thinker.
'
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