Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-29
A NEW BIBLE.

"A N1 w D1O1Cs
A Singular Production of IN Odd Genius
Some New Theological Ideas Promul-
gated.
In the Timely Topics" column of this
mornings GLOBE will be found some &C.
count of DR.. Newbrough' new Bible.
SOahspe" and something about its writer
and the method of its composition. This
contribution to Biblical literature, an
alleged divine revelation, cannot
fail to arrest, to a greater
or less degree, the attention of theolo-
gians, as we'll as the general reader. As q
curiosity it may be contemplated with in
terest, and were it's reliability as great as
its colossal elaboration, the sensation it
would produce would be most profound.
AS there are skeptics who discard the old
Bible, there may also be sceptics
who will discard the New Bible; but will the
disorders of the Old accept the New? The
GLOBE Will not detain the reader from his
enjoyment in reading the following ac-
count OF the new revelation, by an attempt
to solve the above conundrum.
The New Bibsl makesa book of nearly
800 qcarto pages,with glossary, synop-
SIS and an index of the plates, the titles of
which are not the least remarkable feature
of the ''New Bible" What can anybody
make Of s'X1sar'jis,'' "Cyclic Coil" ':Sevor-
kuna,.' SBauganghad," ''Iz and zerl,'' Or
"Emethachavah?" These are dark savings
truly, nor will the reader, staggered by
them, fare much better after consulting
some Ct the explanatory charts, such as
those which set forth the cyclic coil. the
dissection Of the Great Serpent and the
ow Sang.
1t would not be easy to compress within
the narrow limits Of column any ade-
quate presentation of the theory and ar
rangement of so large book, even if it
were of more orderly anG coherent char
acter than '0ahspe," and if there were not
an entirely new system and vocabulary to
deal with. Ashars and asaps, dorpors and
ethics, chinvats and dibbas, druks and
druis, fetals and i'hins, lco'is and shris-
these are some of the endearing terms
with which the student of '..Oahspe' is
wooed to the study of the book, while
matters are further complicated by the
employment of familiar words in new
senses, as for instance, cruelty" which
means TO melt, to test by fire, to
test By binding" for the reason, we
are told, that the original form of testing
su'is OF sar'gis was by binding him on a
wheel. Nor DO the titles of the books into
which Oahspe is divided throw any light
on it--as the Book of Sethartes, the Book
of Ahshong, the Books of Apollo, Thor and
Osiris, the Book Of Fragapatti, son of Je-
hovih, and that of Cpenta armij, daughter
o. Jsaov:A,a-d the Boo os the Arc OF Bon.
And, finally, when the reader now and then
pumps upon an explanatory or historic
passage, it does not always commend itself
at once to merely mortal mind. Here, for
instance, is tho beginning of tie Book Of
Cpen,a>Armij:
l. Jehoyih spoke to Cpenta- armij, God
dsss Of Haot-saiti, in Nirvana,in the arc of
Spe-ta, Commander of the South Fields of
Abaronl. in the Orian Plains of Bilotho-
witchiem, of two hundred thousand years;
Surveyor for Otsias, ten thousand years;
Leader of the Oi1an, seventy Thousand
years; Captain of Gelays' roadways in the
forest of Lugga, twenty thousand years;
Founder and Ruler Of Isaas, thirty thous-
and years; Trencher of the Haigusets
Swamps, four thousand years; Goddess of
Nor, Goddess Of Eunigi, Goddess of Pontu,
each ten thousand years.
8. And there we're present: Obed. God
of Disc, in Emb-ahk; Gavaini. Goddess of
Ipthor, of the Solastis Plains; Alb, First
Shriever of Riy-Seing; Holon-ho, God of
Loo Gam; Raisi, Goddess of Esdras;
Wishtze, God of Zuth in Ronega; and ali
these Gods and Goddesses were above q
hundred thousand years raised in ethera-
an realms, and knew the earth before in
habited by man.
7. On visit to Cpenta- arnij were: Owk=,
Orian Chief of Malter-lan, fifty thousand
years, Marshal of Wiski-loo, thirty thou
sand years; God of Tunsin, in the Tarps
Roads, ninety thousand years; and See
wah-G Con, Chieftainess of the Orian Arc iof
Su-los, two hundred thousand years, Mis-
tress of Aftong, in the Plains of Bel, three
hundred thousand years, Pilotess OF In
wow-lu, one hundred thousand years, God
dess of Eune, in the mountains of Gem
King: and Ha-o-ha, Founder of Ogee, OF
Siam, of Wick-a-wick, and the twelve Mir
vanian Old-tse, in Lo-owtZ. Eli-hagam, to-
gether. with their travelling hosts, each FIVE
10. So Cpentp -armij spa1e to her chief
marshal, saying: Send thou heralds to
the builders and order me an airavagna
capable of five hundred millions, and of
speed grade sixty. After this thou shalt
select from my attendants one hundred
millions, and after that three hundred mil
lions of the Egisl
That is surely as formidable as the cata
logue Of the ships in Homer, or as any of
the genealogies in the Cd Testament.
There are pages of statistics and pedigrees
as appalling: ''The third harvest was six
hundred years and was two thousand mil
lion angels Of grade eighty-th-ee,' Or
''Roa'yis'yis, goddess of Tamak, Bent, one
of Hud'du' owls, enduring three thousand
and seventy years, grade sixty-one," or
SThe Phin hath been destroyed Of all tae
divisions of the earth save Wagga" Who
can hear this and live?
The first seven hundred and fifty pages
are devoted to history of the universe
down to the discovery of America. It
would be more easy to say what they do
not contain than to enumerate their con-
tents. For instance, synopsis" Of the
book of Fragapatti reads as follows: 'sThe
raising up Of Zarathustra (Zoroaste-); his
birth by virgin; his life; locality; his
preaching; the wheel of crucifxion; his
death; cast into a den of lions. his ram