The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-05
REECYER A. ND THE BIBLE.

REECIIER 4 Nd THE BIELE
BoSDIS, Murray county, Mimi, }
Jan. 20, 1850. J
EDITOR ADVANCE: l notice that
Henry Ward Beecher has got into more
trouble with his church by trying to
bend some of the twigs of the solid trees
of the Plymouth congregation. But
Mr.. Beecher will discover by and by
that it is about as easy for Il camel to
pass through needles eye as it is to
bend brash or rotten stick Of timber.
While admire Rev. Mr.. Brechcr for
his many expressions in favor of Liber-
al Christianity and for his energy in
trying to mould the old Theological
IDEAS of men into q better and more
consistent Shape, yet | cannot sympa-
thiZe with him for being controlled by
a bigoted congregation like that of Ply
mouth church. Were he to express his
true sentiments and preach what lie
believed to his congregation what
would he the result? Would he not
be denounced as al infi.lel and hereto
and dismissed from his pulpit? Bat it.
is Il line thing in this worl,t if Il man
can command Il large salary. It often
induces him to do a thing or two w!:ici,
he don't like to do.
But this last sensation of his was
caused by Il difference of opinion as to
the Bible, and [ will ask the privilege
OF expressing my opinion which is this,
Ilnf =
peace and harmony restored in the
church or religious societies until the
Bible is universally acknowledged rs u
human production in every sense of the
word, like every other book; or until it
is entirely discarded, which it undoubt-
et''y will be within the ncxt three or
four generate ions when the people will
outgroW bigo1ry and superstition and
step out Of the old into Il new Era.
when old theories sha! be blotted out
and fact and truth prevail instead.
The Bible may have been well designed
for the wants Of mankind in tile ages
in which it WAS writer! but it appears
very imperfectly fitted to our time and
the present intellectual condition of tie
world. For instance, in point Of NOR
alHy f i! to see that the Bible is at
all superior to any other beck which
men lave written while we find much
i'll it that is crude. coarse, Indecent and
absurd. For ;sn Illustration of tile i'm
moral c''aractcr Of tic Bible VT have
only to refer to the case Of George
Francis Train who was imprisoned SIX
months III the Tnml,s in New York city
only Il few years ago for no ot!;ci.
otItlse than publishing i few Quota
tions without Il word of connie It from
that book. Now if a man, according
to Our laws, can be imprisoned six
months for publishing a few quotations
from Il book, what should tllt. extent Of
Ills punishment be tor publishing the
whole of it. d. NJ. Bennett was SEN
fenced to the State prison for thirteen
months Tor sending u single copy of
''Cuplu IokeS" through the mails and
yet hundreds and thousands Of Bibles
;t:c sent through our mails every year
aud no quest ions arc asked and no com
pllint is made. aud yet every one who
reads It must klow that it contains
more indecent language than amy other
book published or ever has been pub
lislied, and Furthermore a book tia! has
been changed, translated and rttrans-
lated as often us tie Bible Ivy tie PRIEST
hood, what can we expect from it. We
read IN one passage "clllSttl is he who
takes thrrrfrnnl on adds thercto." and
yet after all the priests are not afraid
TO change it us often as they see fit; bnt
the ignorant and bigotcd world is dllpc,I
md forced by threat Of everast ing p,,,,-
shment to believe all the ahs,u,lities
md Inconsistencies of the Bible. just
I,
mt crr'ds arc taught Ivy the Thcolngi-
;a1 schools fer which, they arc paid.
And AL are happy or pretend to be hnt
'hey ar" not ior observation teaches
he different. !. X.
Il VIGOROUS OPINION
The Worthinyton Journal has chang
ID hands again-thc fourth time. max
nS about one change year since its TX.
stencr, this time Rev. j, G. gle pur-
;''asing it. III the past it has pracl ical-
y been the property of political ring
'ters, with Il rontcmplibIy dirty Dig to
!"k their Spite. Lindsay, The low
iyed, lmp'cunious, lying whelp has
eft it and gone to Illin< is, where we
nope his prevaracatihg talent will he
better appreciated than here. The mis-
sion of the Journal has been to smash
MIl!ler'S ADVANCE, but our good CID
friend has held the fort well and kept
he journal starving ring organ,
which has 'bnStetl' every body WHO has
touched it, alnl now the ADVANCE can
look down from its proud position up
On the remains Of u political mouth
piece with soma pride at least. We
hope Ogle will do something for it, hut
|lecan't till he alone runs it. If lie has
got the proprietary interest
out Of the hands Of the bulnmers he
may make it Il success, or move it away
from Wnrthington. lie has talked Of
taking it to Heron Lake, and no doubt
would do much better there than in
Warrington. There is Just about
room enough in Wortl!ington for Mil
Ter, but Of late. however, the Journal
has been SO sick that it hasn't troubled
him much.-Windom Reporter.
Wonder if the Reporter don't mean
Gruelc Instead Of Lindsay WHEN it '.s.s
the above epithets, Lindsay did make
All effort toretau the Rolrer-Town pat
ronage and still to Shake off their devil
isl, control, but he gave it up in disgust.
Another thing Lindsay did try to do,
viz: he honestly endpavorel to cx;n-
guish the he|l-iirc started here by Rob
rer, Town IL Co., witt, their Satan's
imp Grutlt to apply the torch in more
senses than one.
We acknowledge the receipt of n very
neatly printed card inviting us to at
tend the Two Uundretll Anniversary
OF the Discovery of the Falls of St.
Anthony. Think of that! Who
would have thought that those Falls
were two hundred years old? But they
are, and the celebration is to DO held
on the Bid Of july next. and a big time
we are going to have under the auspi-
ces of the Historical Society.