Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-04

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RAE-FrwARD kIABALL.
BosToS, Dec. ~, ISL.
| To the Editor OF the Free Press and Times.
Its easy to see how hat full of brick
bats NAV awe man into silence. \ p-ac-
teal illustration of this possibility is found
in the case of our Congressman, Cen. Butler.
No little comment has been made by the
Press on his remarkable lamb-like dispose
ton since he was returned to his old haunts.
At the meeting OF the Middlesex club, last
Saturday, he broke the profound silence. lie
spoke as freely and earnestly on the political
questicns-the silver bill, the tariff, the
Southern policy, civil service reform, and the
future Of the Republican party-as of yore.
In fact. Ben Butler is Ben Butler still. lie
thinks the Presidents mad course is to be
accounted for on the ground OF Ignorance OF
public sentiment He says that one can
never hear the truth in the White House
(but perhaps he iorgets that President Hayes
has lodged in the White House scarcely two
months altogether). Every one understands
Butter, and the student Of the political move
ments of the present time is prepared to
Judge to what extent his views are correct.
The fact that New Hampshire Is Just on
the eve of an election goes good way to
explain the import Of the statement which
VIM. E. Chandler, the "disgruntled" mem
Der of the Republican national convention
from the Granite State, has Just published.
Eh What fish row? As Senator Sher
man and his associates On the one side and
Senator Gordon and his associates on the
other, have Individually and emphatically
denied any compact for counting in" Presi-
dent Hayes, quite general Indifference to the
accusations is manifested here. The Rcpub-
leans look upon the whole matter as a minor
Outburst of a disappointed and Infatuated
politician.
It's strange what fire little spark kin
dies. A few weeks ago Springfield dropped |
a match into the finder, and all parts Of the |
country are discussing eternal punish |
ment." This week the New England pa
pers have been throwing on large bundle |
of fagots by the publication of the state
ment made in sermon preached by Ca
non Farrar, at Westminster Abbey. that
the words hell" "damnation," '.cter-
nal, > fought not to stand any longer in
our English Bible and that, being in our
present acccptation Of them, simply mis-
TRANSACTIONS, they most unquestionably will
not stand in the revised version Of the
Bible, il the revsers have understood their
duty. The verb 'to damn, in the Greek
testament is neither more nor less than
the verb to condemn The WORD
'aiomoS. translated everlasting, in its
first sense, means 'agc-long I, in its see
time. The word rendered hell il Tar
tarus, borrowed a. the name for the prison
OF evil spirits. In five verses it is lladcs,
the world beyond the grave; in twelve
places it is Gehenna, the valley of lIinnom,
outside Jerusalem, which. after being pol
luted by corruF: practices, was purified
by iire-the metaphor Of purifying and cor
reetnr punishment, which, IS We all be
lieye, does await the imrenitent sinner,
both here and beyond tue grave.
The more Importance attiches To this
statement, a. Canon farrar il the author of
the best Life Of Christ extant 1t was
declared in that mother Of all English
whence came the Westminster
cntechism in that massive pile O! ancient
masonry which furnishes covering To the
.shes Of the great poets from CHANGER to
'amThell, IN the poets corner beneath
whose roof rest the mortal remains of kings,
queens and MOBILES the lords Of the world
within whose walls the revised translation
i now being performed But while the
press /, publishing this declaration. it does
injustice to the truth ly failing to publish
also the limitations which Canon farrar q
puts upon his words. Il
In the columns Of tie Gnmdidn. Canon t
aiIaI nus Niiu Aliat tHc thtiit meaning oi |
liS words had been ml,appTehendCd and
His language was directed
neither against the doctrine Of f,,Hai pun I
summit, nor the use of that word in the re- [
iscd translation. He aimed simply to show I
hat We are not obliged to associate with Q
he word eternal. " an idea Of cndlcssness .
md he intended, also, Plea for the pos :
ihlc consequences Of Christ's infinite re. i
lcmJtion, even beyond the grave, which his y
ext Il Pet iv ~ unquC-tionably indicates. y
1t seems from the reception which Edward h
limhall's work received in Dr Scuddcr's v
hurch, New York. last Sunday, that his
lnboundcd confidence ia himself and in tod
on Il always take There is, however, an
ther side to the story. attended Mr.. :
iimhall4 famous service in the Shepard Con ~
church, in Cambridge. whose -
eht of $50 Geo WAS raised under his ap- -
eals The pastor introduced the evangelist n
0 the audience as the man who converted n
Ir Moody when the latter was a day labor b
r in Boston There is some resemblance, tc
indeed, in the features, manners and business Il
,ethod5 of the two men But while Mr. ] oil