The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-10-08

has succeeded only in being insOIent. If DR.. CoIensS had only
= tub in he Sandwich Isles. ImS s"rs ,h As t he Bi nom to crude
prOfundittes have set the Christian World a-lsughing, I should
tremhle Tor his cause. He would say with a chuckle - Riiesnt,
I an, sir, your humble servant,
(G) \ point once proved is not abandoned simply
because it is not constantly reiterated. We have
occasion TO know that many intelligent and Impair
tial readers have been startled by what seemed to
them the grossest .N1teriqiism in the sermon, and
yet more in Mr.. MasOn's rejoinders on it.
(b) We will not attribute any motives to Mr.. NJ.
IN his effort here and throughout his article, TO gain
sympathy as a prosecuted man who is " att0cked,"
and by implication abused simply because his pub
hshed opinions are criticised. We have not assigned
a bad motive 10 Mr.. VI. in his display of Hebrew
learning, and if hs infers it, IT'S his. not ours. We
have no doubt he did the best he knew, and a man
may be somewhat pedantic" without knowing it..
Co From the temper with which our reverend
friend throws stones, we think he must be speaking
geOiogicaNy instead Of = INTELLECTUALLY"
Cd After Mr.. VI. has in a former article confessed
that he stood corrected with the prefix and pointing
of the word in question, what does all this kicking
up of Hebrew dust amount to except a convenient
eoger to escape from the point Of our criticism, that
as an answer TO Colenso. shade was no better than
image. since Mr.. VI. makes the shade, image or
likeness. TO refer to the body and not alone TO a
spiritual likeness.
() We know quite enough of "ancient philoso-
phical discu~sion'' to satisfy us that it perverted the
faith of the church through all the early and middle
ages, darkening counsel by words, without know
ledge; that it sent the faith flying like a shuttle cock
from one extreme TO another, and that such subtle
ties have never heen any her'er adapted than in the
present instance TO advance the piety or TO enIghten
the minds Of the people.
(f) What a very funny mixture of blunt, not TO
say coarse, personality AMI Of 7ointless proof texts
in the above. We never knes before how much the
surgeon has TO do with r~ectifying original sin. But
there are some deformities in theology. which,
whether original or in 1rafted, he might find il hard
to cure.
CD Whoever cares enough about the matter to
refer to our former article on this point, will zee that
this whole paragraph, summer palace and all, is
hardly an ingenious evasion of our criticism, which
was directed solely to the questioning of Mr.. Ms
assumption that eikon better expressed the idea of
phantom semblance than the kindred word eiaoton.
() As Mr.. NJ. is so determined in his effort to
make out that somebody is n hereto, we are glad that
he has no power TO burn those whom he may falsely
accuse. We have already assured him that we have
no thought of denying that our blessed Lord was not
only In the form of man, but that in his earthly life
both before and after the resurrection he had flesh
bones and blood like other men. Nor do we per-
ceive any essential difference bet ween his belief and
respecting the two whole and perfect natures of
the God Tncarnate. But with ali his labored quail
ications and explanations. we do not think his trans
talk about the old material substance Of
nan in the second Adam rejecting back upon the sense
n which the first Adam was, as to his body, the
mage of God, is any improvement upon the state
nents Of the Bible which we both believe.
() a very odd '' clerical error surely 20 mistake
he I'd General Council at Ephesus, for the 4th at
merely an Oversight" of 20 years in
and many leagues in space.
% Thank Heaven, there is no national church
ere to dispense temporal patronage, to denounce all
denominations as heretics and schisgarics, and
D set up the claim to be exclusively the pue church.
assumption will not keep in this climate. Here
ne denomination is just rs much schismatical ne
mother. unless we assume that he is the greatest
'hismatic who speaks most contemptuously of Christ
IN fellowship and Christian unity.
% Here Mr.. Ms proof texts will convince no one
no doubts his flesh and bones theory of the Divine
AZURE in the heavenly state, since his proofs for the
ost part refer not to the Savior in his heavenly but
his earthly state.
u If Mr.. Ms proof texts are not relevant. his
lotaticn of the 4th Article of his creed, which il
Ally the only good point he makes. will not carry
as an authority. For the 9TH Article Of
same creed cuts him off from such arbitrary use
the 4th. II says, " Holy Scripture containeth all
ngs necessary TO salvation 30 thar whatsoever is =
read therein. nor may be proved thereby, is not :
be required Of any man, that it should be believed
an article Of faith, or be thought 7. ouisite or ne
ssary to salvation" Zee also Article 10Th, II is
lawful for the church 10 ordain anything that is
itrary to Gods Word written; Meth r may il so
pound one place in scripture that ii be repugnant
another" 4
M Hub he means. He who writes in these isl Y
Is writes on the literary hub of this world and ~,
in a tub Surely Mr.. VI. did not mean to
TX so disparngingly of This central king ION as 10
1t "a '' rub Y ms onl, said OF Culenso what
been said er carheira by the highesj authorities !
lr. Mason's own English Church Does not Co
50 whine pitenusly, in the preface to his third
line, over The fact tina, the Bishop of Oxford has +
THAI = his sp4culntions so rash and feeble in III
nselves are in all essential points but the repeti Sci
of old and often answered cavils against the
d of God - and The PrImate OF all England has
that they are, for the most part pueriIe and !
- 0 puerile that an intelligent youth who reads
Bible with care could draw the fitting answers ~
the Bible itself-so trite that they have been Il
n and again refuted two hundred years ago ,"
hus endeth the first lesson, and this is the - tail
he tub"
Eara Nfrnnk GnIoa& CI