The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-11

prices, before ordering them done elsewhere.
gag- The Aohonoi Irteli.gencer gives the
last etiuSion Of the Professor, in the A.
hHEc Monthly, well deserved castigation.
We think the criticism is worthy OF repub-
li5hing--at least parts OF it. The htslh-
gencsr says,
With the Professors theological opinions
we have no quarrel. Ii he thinks " the Rev
John Chanvin and his associates no better
than a herd OF Aztecs or Feeieans, because,
living in the sixteenth century, they were
not much wiser than the men OF their own
generation in regard to the true theory OF
religious freedom, we have no exceptions TO
take in the premises. If he sees fit 10 deride
the Catholic Church for its middle age doc
trines, he undoubtedly has right TO do SO
in this luminous nineteenth century, OF
which he is shining light. Certainly the
people of that age, who built the cathedral
of Europe, and invented the deep-tOned or
gan to I'LL them with sacred melody, were
moi the people who should give lessons 10
Us in religious doctrine, any more than in
church architecture or nasal pSalmody. Re-
ligion may be, rs the Professor argues. =
progressive science like medicine but there
are many who will continue TO believe that
Luke, the Evangelist and beloved phvsi-
clan, though he hourished eighteen hun
dred years ago, knew nearly as much about
Christianity as the Boston Professor and
that, too, though the former could doubtless
have derived much useful instruction from
the latter in anatomy and therapeutics. On
this point, however, we speak with bPcom-
ing diffdence.
Bat We DO maintain, in the name OF all
the gods OF hospitality recognized by Hot
tentots and Feejeans, that when the Profess
+. sor invites us to a civil breakfast with him.
he should not insist on regaling us with
new-fangled dishes which, however much
they NAV be to his own liking are very Of
fensiye 10 our nostrils and uusavory to our
palate Ii he has bat single course tor
people O1 all kinds and tastes We respectful
lv submit that he should limit the number of
hiS invited guests, or apprize them all in ad-
vance OF the fare they must expect Ia the
end that individuals OF weak stomachs may
/ Is free 10 consult their convenience and
easy digestion by accepting or declining his
I invitation az thefr pleasure. Ii he srH be-
+ i,romiscuons in his toRrices, LEI him not
: thrust "A rapoui az swinrS flesh t,etore the
Hebrew who has n,suspiciouSy come 10 a
+ Christian table on the implied understand
ina that the pruprieiia7 oi decent lite should
Rot be violated on the occasion. As the
: Professor admits that il wOnld he highly in
: d-coroas to attack a church dogma in a
/ lVCeUm irrlnte 81 We maintain that II -
2 eouall, indeCorous To sheer AT doctriH~= oi
religions Isith ~ a magazine devoted 10
I literature, art. .tnd politics. unless the pub
lie is anlecedenily Hpprle'i that ;, sentiment
al religion vii. he incnlcared "u.ier or
all OF these three heads
+ In the absence Of any such anno,tno enrnt
/ we had not before supposed that the Allan
/ tic Monthly would assail all religious creeds
I save those which are OF modern growth.
7 And this we say not because we have any
fear of injury being done to Christian truth
/ by the mocking inuendoes of any periodical
. Ii is dnite possible, We fancy that the " mo-
( dirval cree ds will be- able to dispense with
| the " Professor patronage as they have
lasted so long, and have survived thus far
+ the shocks OF time some of them may still
/ manage Ia live under all the disadvantages
! of the latter day illumination afforded by an
age which eSnlts IN the Gospel OF Mormon
and feeds on the spiritual mysteries dis
closed ia the theophany of Table Tipping
If they perish helore the jibes and jokes of
DsTsifears. it will only waken new senti-
m-nf of pity tor the SAINTS, conieSSors, and
martyrs who because they lived before the
: " Professor day, have died in their igno-
rance and faith. The sound OF the Mis-
erere and Ihe repetition OF an etfete comics
sion might DO for Pascal, and Milton, and
Newton; for dilettante doctors Of this gem
Grafton new revelation ia declared 10 lie
necessary, and that new revelation the Pro-
ieSsor calls the =. Messiah of Woman not
of course the Messiah OF woman IA handed
down from the middle age in the homage
paid to the virgin mother of our Lord, but
The feminine Messiah peculiar TO our own
times, aud which comes TO preach with
blatan, voice the acceptable year Of Bloom
erism and Womaus Rights.