Christian herald., March 21, 1884, Image 1

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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Our article on the Holy Spirit
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MUNMOUTH, OREGON ; FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1884.
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It is too funny. The other wreek
we had occasion to state that a con­
Bro. J. Durham, our California
vent in Italy had recently been de­
editor, has our thanks for his pho­
moted to secular uses, and that
tograph. • It is a good one, and of
among other things the bones, so
course, looks just like an editor.
so much esteemed, of St. Peter were
We will return the compliment
sold by the commissioners for eighty
soon.
cents ! We then said, “ Our friend
— Indifference is one of the chief of the Catholic Sentinel ought to
obstacles in the way of Christian have Ko"uglil”these“ bones tu assist
growth. That brother or that sis­ him in establishing his theory of
ter .who treats the church or her Papal infallibility !” This was
work with indiflerence “"¿Toes - not- “enough.—
possess the spirit of the Master, and poured out half a column of holy
is a hindrance to the cause of Christ. indignation on our head for having
no “ pride of ancestry,” for “defam­ was Shem (Jerome, Luther); and"
ing tho apostles of Christ ” and some have conjectured that he was
“ridiculing their venerable bones,” an extraordinary emanation from
etc. But we are still alive. Now the Deity which suddenly appeared
what we want to know is, if the for a little while on the stage of
action and was then as suddenly
S e ntine l
that those wrere the bones of the removed from it."” But aH siKtr’YTCS'
apostle Peter ? If so, and it will tionsare purely hypothetical,and are
convince us of that fact, we will wholly inconsistent with the mani­
agree to lengthen out our face as fest purpose of God in making Mel­
long as the occasion will demand chisedec on extraordinary type of
and will take on a degree of solem­ his own Son as the great high priest
nity in perfect accord with our of our confession. For it is very
“ pride of ancestry.” We do not obvious that the Holy’Spirit has
claim any very close fleshly kinship intentionally thrown an impenetra­
to the apostle Peter; and if we did, ble veil over both the birth and the
we can see no very good reason for death of Melchisedec, over both his
standing up over his bones eighteen parentage and his posterity, for the
hundred years after his death, with purpose of making him a more per­
sanctimonious faces, and like some fect type- of Chi ist. He now stands
great" sniveilng^caTF,"^feiTiTiYigTtvcrs' “'before* ns
nnnvas
of tears, instead of letting these alone, without father, without
bones rest in peace till the morn of mother, without genealogy, having
the resurrection. We claim to ex- neither beginning of days nor end
ercise a due amount of reverence of life. He appears in the sacerdo­
for the apostles of Christ, and are tal drama by himself, and in the
willing to treat their bones with all prime of manhood, honored and re­
the deference required by the spirit spected by the most eminent ser-
of ChriStt^^that - religion - vants of God_ as. a priest upon his
which draws its chief source of throne, thus beautifully illustrating
spiritual nourishment from the tra­ in his own person the royal dignity
ditions and dry bones of a few and the perpetual character of
Roman Catholic monks of the Dark Christ’s priesthood. But let it once
Ages is not the religion we care to be clearly demonstrated that he
possess. We suggest that of our was Shem, the son of Noah, or any
contemporary would pay less atten­ other person of known genealogy,
tion to the bones of St. Peter and and that moment the analogy fails,
give more heed to his living and and he forever ceases to be a fit
inspired teaching, it would see a type of Christ.” Hence such ques­
little more of the Christianity t>f tions as these give us but little con­
the New Testament.
cern. We can find plenty of ques­
tions respecting matters of a more
A brother asks us to answ*er this
practical nature all around us which
question : “ Who was Melchisedec ?”
need to be discussed and, if possible,
The shortest way to answer this is
settled, and to those we prefer giv­
by telling the truth, and saying we
ing our attention.
do not know. We agree with the
following from Bro. R. Milligan’s
In our judgment the article of
Commentary on Hebrews. The Sister Bedwell in last week’s H er ­
author says: “Who this Melchisedec ald places woman’s work in the
was, has long been a question of in­ church in a somewhat unsatisfactory
terest with both the learned and light before our readers. It begins
the unlearned. Some say that he by asking, “ Why not let God’s word
wft» 41hrLst hiin.self .(Ambrose, Hot- settle this question ?” and then
tinger); some, that he was the Holy strange to say, in all the Scriptures
Spirit (Hieracas, Epiphanius); some, referred to, not a single passage
that he was an angel (Origen, that bears directly on the question
Didymus); some, that He was Enoch' TsTo^be fbUIfd'in the whole article !
(Hulsius, Calmer); some, that he It would not take God’s word lon^
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