The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-06-02

day last says:
The duke had but few minutes to
snare for the reporter. He acknowledge
ed that he had purchased some 10000
acres of land near the line of the st.
Paul road, but had but an indistinct
idea as to price-something less than a
pound per acre he thought had on
" vague conception of where the land
is situated. There is good authority,
however, for the statement that it is in
Rock and Mobiles counties, MINI.
The true believers, that is those who
believe that salvation depends upon be.
lieving and moreover in believing what
the bible teaches, will be under ever
lasting obligations to the late revisers
of the bible. Thus, for centuries people
have been asked to believe in the Trini
ty, that is, that there were three per-
sons in one person. Nobody could COM
prehend it, but, therefore, said the
priests, there is the more merit in be-
lieving it. Some people, like Byron,
wished there were FIVE instead of three,
so that there might be still more merit
in believing. Wicked men, in all ages
since the doctrine. have refused to be-
lieye what was simply impossible, and
these have been disposed of by behead~
ing, burning, racking and various other
churchly and priestly methods of dis
posing of ''heretics." The iercest and
bloodiest conflicts that have disgraced
and cursed the earth have been over
this doctrine of the Trinity. st. John
foresaw the doctrine in his vision under
the symbol Of three frogs coming out
of the mouth of the "beast, " or church,
and foretold the effects Of the evil doc
trine.
But now come the revisers of the BIZ
BILE and leave out of the new version the
FIVE principal texts on which the Trini-
tarians have rested. Thus the passage
in l John, v. and 8, ''for there are
three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word. and the Holy Ghost,
and these three are one," ETC., has been
entirely expunged as spurious.
We thank them, along with all the
other sinners. They have relieved us
all of a great burden. We can get to
Heaven now without believing that one
is actually three and that three is actu-
ally one. There will be no more Threats
cut nor necks broken for refusing to be-
lieve an absurdity, just because lot Of
priests said that God said so. If we
could have few more revisions Of the
bible, we might get rid Of the blbliola-
try of the Professionals, which is more
absurd than the Mariolotry of the Ro-
manists. and come to view the bible for
just what it is, as the most remarkable
literary production and the fullest re-
cord of spirit manifestations xtant, and
AS containing the most wonderful
prophecies which have ever been record
ed by any people.
We congratulate mankind on their
escape. Think Of it! ION what a slen-
der thread hang everlasting things!'If
the unbelievers in the Trinity had died
been "lost." BY living to witness the
advent of the new version they are saw
ed without believing in the Trinity.
THE LONG.S1LENT "COUNTY' HEARD
FROM
EDITOR ADVANCE: s'Plebean 8" WIN
dy article in your paper of the 10Th,
very likely came from the prairie where
wind is usually generated. I presume
some farmer is taken with the idea that
he knows all about the bridges and so
forth. Mr. "Plsbean" is evidently in
sinuating that our worthy commission
er Mr.. Bloom, of Seward, whose home
is near the scene of destruction IS gull
ty of neglect or connivance to make
money out Of the public. Such an accu-
sation against man of his caliber is
superlative nonsense. Our commission
er is one who is held in the highest es-
TEEN and respect by the whole county.
If he was not, would we be arranging
matters at this early day to make him
our next County Auditor?
For ''Plebean" to attack him in this
covert manner and to insinuate that he
is such a political hermaphrodite, is
putting an indignity upon the occu~
pants of our Offices of the commonwealth
of Mobiles county. If we would pre-
serve the dignity of our politics it will
not do to allow any one to dilacerate
our adjndicant bodies III the transaction
of their official duties.
AS to the bridge in question being
too short, does not the worthy ~ farmer
who signs himself "Plebean" know that
it is usually expected of them to grade
up to the ends of the bridge, any way,
and if it should prove little shorter
than the width of the stream, all engi-
neers will admit that streams run bet
ter and freer when confined to a narrow
channel. About being put in the snow,
1 would like to know where it could
have been put last winter without being
put in the snow? And then he says that
it hoated away in the spring flood. The
innocent! Does not any one know that
pine would float when in the water. If
he didn't want it to float off why didn't
he regulate the Jack creek water.
These slurs are beginning again to be
thrown out against our county officials
in derogation of their official honor, and
1t may just as we'll be put right here
that these things must stop-I say