Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-16
REvEREND SWINGS HEREsY.

REvEREND SWINGS HEREsY.
In . very interesting article on the
subject indicated in tho headline. the
Chicago Tribune gives its readers very
clever and classical rendition of the mat
tiers Of difference which led to the at
tempted church mauling Of Rev. Mr..
Swing. of that city. upon . charge pre-
ferrsd by . brother cleric, of the un-
pardonabls misdemeanor Of heresy-
falling away from the strict letter of the
faith rs sxpounded by the implacable
Calvin and his hard-shell disciples.
Here, as follows. is the sentence enun-
eiatsd by the audacious Swing. in one
Of his sermons, which caused the COM
plant Of heresy 10 be lodged against
him. Says he:
Catherine II. held more truth and better
truth than was known to all classic
Greece, held to belief in a Savior of
whose glory that gifted soul knew
naught; yet such is the grandeur of soul
above mind, that doubt not that Queen
Penelope, of the dark land, and the
doubling Socrates have received at
Heavens gate a sweeter welcome than
greeted the ear of Russia's brilliant but
false hearted Queen"
Now. to condense the admirable pres
~sx>x:1- - A. ~l>-..xa~> xb,,a raSarrod
to BY the preacher. as contained in the
Tribune, We offer the following: Penelope
was the wife Of the warlike Ulysses.
over whose parting from whom, Ca
lypso ne Sc pouvait consoler''-as all
school-boys Who ever stumbled through
the first lines Of Telemaque will remem-
Der. The special virtues ascribed to
Penelope consist in her chastity, and
eonstaney to her husband during his
twenty years. absence in the wars.
During all that time. to quote the 1ri-
txne-which being q Chicago paper. Is
naturally surprised at Psnslope's way
Of doing things,-''she neither sought .
divorce, had . lover, nor consented to
many any Of her importunate suitors."
Al to Socrates, tho most famous of all
moral philosophers. he lived too many
years before Christ to be . Christian,
and was too conscientious q worshipper
Of the immortal gods of the Greek my
thology to b anything else than q very
firm and unwavsring Pagan:-Yst SO
admirable were his teachings and so ex-
smplary his life, that his name stands
above all other men as an e1emplar of
the nobler aims and more absolutely
unselfish motives of the human race.
Az to Catherine II of Russia, the
world knows only too much Of her de-
bauched and iniquitous course. Still
shs was Christian and as such, &C.
cordins to the teachings Of the Evangel-
icals, or the implacables. rather, she.
when she died, went to heaven, while
Penelope and Socrates went to perdition.
That is to say, the doctrine of redemp-
ton teaches this if it teaches anything
20 it is held by Professor Patton, the
strict constructionist who preferred the
charges against the audacious and hereti-
cal Swing. In vein Of well directed
and inoisive irony, the Tribune concludes
it, editorial remarks on this subject as
follows:
The followers of Calvin in the Chicago
Presbytery can only maintain that Cath
crime II is in Heaven by allowing that
she went through the portals Of the
Catholic Church, and that she did this
after having abandoned Evangelicalism
and this they must do in order to estab-
lish the heresy that good Socrates and
virtuous Penelope never met as warm a
welcome in Heaven, as did the dissolute
Russian Empress. Heresy is an awful
thing. and the spirit of inquisition is as
lustifiable now as it ever was. We may
not burn, hang, quarter, bury alive, or
otherwise kill the body of heretics, as
was once the fashion, but the truth of
religion, the cause of Christ, demand
now, as they always have, that an ex-
ample should be made of tine man who
will dare to tell the children of this day
that Soerates and Penelope, . pair of
heathens, are probably among the elect
On An eouality with Catherine IL.