THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 11, 1899
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this world and follow our honest For the Torch of R eu v n .
by mistake put it in Gallilee. The
convictions, doing the very best Where Did Jesus Feed the Five apologists first argued that he
we can, practising morality, vir- (
Thousand?
meant “Gallilee of the Gentiles,”
tue, truth, justice, goodness, living
and when that failed to satisfy the
BY C. C. MILLARD.
purely and uprightly, that that is
critics they put another Bethsaida
just the best preparation anybody
in the map of Palestine. I chal
According to Luke, 9:10: “ And lenge any one to show the least au-
can make for any other locality,
here or hereafter. What do you be took them and went aside priv- j tbority for a Betheaida in Gallilee
ately into a desert place belonging out8ide of John’s gospel.
gay to that?”
IS A BOOK OF
“That you’re an ignorant, stupid to the city called Bethsaida.”
Matthew and Mark locate Beth
This is plain and direct; but saida correctly, and Luke does not
heathen, a wicked, vile and hard
ened sinner; and if you don’t re- where was Bethsaida? On the map locate it at all. But if they locate
pent of your sins—you—don’t of Palestine furnished to the Sun- the place where the five thousand
know where you’ll go toi” said day schools there is a Bethsaida on were fed, Luke does not, for the sea
Kate, her eyes blazing with anger. each side of the river Jordan.
of Gallilee would lie between the
According to John, 6:1: “After feeding place and Bethsaida.
Rosa looked coolly at Kate, and
gave'expression to a long, low’ these things [miracles performed at
In Kitto’s “History of the Bible”
whistle. Then she bowed very low Jerusalem] Jesus went over the sea Bethsaida is placed opposite the
and said, “Kate, my dear, I thank of Gallilee, which is the sea of Ti middle of the lake, and in Hitch
On the following and
you for the compliment; and I beg berias.” Verse 3: “And went up cock’s “Analysis” about the same
kindred Subjects:
into
a
mountain,
and
there
he
sat
to say that you are a very intelli
place and within half a mile of
gent, lady-like and religious Chris with his disciples.”
Choraziu; but in the map of Pales
S e lf C o n tro l
And
here
he
fed
the
five
thous
tian! I would also wish you a very
tine in the Sunday school lessons
good afternoon, and as it has and. This place was on a moun (Cook & Co., Chicago) it is placed S e lf R esp ect
cleared up and the sun is peering tain on the farther side of the sea above the lake on the Gallilee side
through the clouds, you can, if you of Gallilee from Jerusalem; for of the Jordan, nearly opposite ■ W h a t is M o ra lity
wish, proceed on your expedition.” when they went again “over” the Bethsaida (Julias). Now, if Kitto W h a t is Ignorance
Kate was mortified when her sea they came to Capernaum, on and Hitchcock had good and suf
Fraud a C rim e
anger cooled sufficiently to permit the side toward Jerusalem.
ficient authority for their location,
According to Mark, the feeding what authority had Cook & Co., of H a b it, 2nd N a tu re
her to think how rudely she had
treated her friend. She knew she was done “in a desert place,” and Chicago? When religious authors
had an infirmity of temper, and in then (6:45) “straightway he con disagree, who shall decide? It is P oliteness
her own mind admitted the force strained his disciples to get into my opinion that there is no au W isdom
of Rosa’s remarks in all that she the ship and go to the other side thority on this subject except the
had said, and that night she re before unto Bethsaida, while he confused and contradictory state E tc -, e tc ., e tc .
solved upon her knees to have sent away the people.” Verse 46: ments of the gospel writers, and
One of these chapters is
nothing to do with the outward ex “And when he had sent them away the Bible is not an authority on
Worth more to
h
pression of religion till she had he departed into a mountain.” Geography.
Young
and
old
than
the
corrected that temper of hers, and Verse 53: “And when they had
Finally, the prefix Beth means
Price of the book.
after many trials, I am happy to passed over they came into the “the house of” and refers to the
land of Gennesaret.”
say, succeeded admirably.
founder of the city. In the times
. . . IT SHOULD BE IN . .
Here the feeding was done “in a when these towns were named men
She is now twenty-two years old,
and has just commenced the study desert place,” but Bethsaida was had but one name, and as there
of medicine! When Rosa Hopkins on the other side from Jerusalem could be but one house of David, or
heard of it she gave one of her pe in “the land of Gennesaret.” And one Beth-lehem or Beth-shun, so
culiar whistles, and said she knew Jesus “departed” from the “desert there could be but one Beth-saida.
Kate was sensible when you came place into a mountain.”
Since no ore claims to know when
According to Matthew as to the the five thousand were fed, and the
to her real self, and that she could
and receive a
do much more good trying to save place, the account agrees with that place cannot be determined from
n eatly c lo th -
bodies than in trying to save in Mark.
the gospels, it must be that the bound copy, post paid.
souls.—[Apples of Gold.
Philip was “of Bethsaida of Gal gospel authors, from their own per
ilee, the city of Andrew and Peter,” sonal knowledge, knew nothing
A G E N TS WANTED.
and
as
James
and
John,
the
sons
about
it.
What we Do Not Believe.
of Zebedee, were “partners with
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Simon” (Peter) before the disciples
Carlyle on Study.
A man’s unbelief is just as much
were called, they, too, must have
to his credit as his belief, if it be un
If you believe me, you who are
belief in what is unfit to be believed. lived at Bethsaida. Our Christian
S ilverton
O regon
friends
claim
that
John’s
gospel
young,
yours
is
the
golden
season
W e do not believe that Jesus was
was written by this John who was of life. As you have heard it
divine. We do not believe that
in partnership with Peter of Beth called, so it verily is, the seed
there is a hell. We do not believe
Six Tracts to Promote
saida in the fishing business on the time of life, in which, if you do not
thht the Bible is the word of God.
V e do not believe in salvation by sea of Gallilee. If so, he must sow, or if you sow tares instead of
have known where Bethsaida was; wheat, you cannot expect ¡to reap
laith in Jesus. \\ e do not believe
that the universe is a trap to catch and if there were two such places, well afterward, and you will arrive
one on either side of the lake and at indeed little; while in the course
tBen; that there is either a secret
In Flare of Christianity:
Qnly a few miles apart, he would of years, when you come to look
door beneath our feet or a halter
1 Can 8m s be Forgiven?
above our heads. We do not be have said so, since his writing is back, you will bitterly repent when 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil
lieve in a single one of the thirty- addressed to the Gentiles instead of j it is too late. The habits of study
ization?
the
Jews,
and
he
is
careful
to
ex
acquired
in
youth
are
of
the
high
nine articles.
3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable?
plain the customs of the Jews and est importance in after life. At 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religion».
We hold that unbelief in these
gives us the two names of the sea the season when you are young in 5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
Christian absurdities is more nec
years the whole mind is, as it were, 6 Immortality or Annihilation?
essary to the mental and moral or lake.
JU ST T H E T H IN G
health of mankind than is belief.— The gospel writers knew of but fluid, and is capable of forming it-
onp Bethsaida—the one on the self into any shape that the owner to hand to your Christian friends. Pend
[Investigator.
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