The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-14
BISHOP WARREN.
His Discourse Here a Week
Ago.
A CRITICAL REVIEW OF IT.
What a "Theologian" Understands
About the Subject of the Text
seIected.-A Superficial
Effort.

The press of the country is often so
reckless in its praise of certain persons,
that when we see and hear them for our
selves we feel much disappointed and
chagrined. It'll frequently the case in
noticing actors and public lecturers that
the reporters or editors write them up
SO highly, and praise them in torrent
of language so effectively that the pub
lie rushes to give audience only to be
disappointed and annoyed. In this
western country especially, think that
discrimination is lamentably absent,
and public actors and speakers are
many times announced with flourish
of trumpets to the discontinue of per
sons of taste and culture. 1t
arises, no doubt, from charitable
disposition to give them "a lift'' in the
world, or good send off. -" 1t may be,
however, that the writer may not be a
lust critic or good Judge of the subjects
or the abilities. have frequently been
led to expect great things from certain
prominent persons through indiscrimin-
ate praise given even in well-conducted
PAPERS: and on hearing or seeing the
parties so praised, have come away
humbled at least. now make 1t point
to see and hear for myself, not believing
all the fulsome praise lavished on the
speaker or actor, and thus am able to
form my feeble judgment on him, and
on the reports following.
/ noticed in the PAPERS of last week
that the eloquent and learned Bishop
Warren, q very prominent divine and
great scholar, would preach in this city
on Sunday last. His former efforts
were alluded to as great productions of
4 master mind, and delivered effectively
and eloquently. OF course no person
should miss the rare opportunity to lis
ten to the distinguished man. With
few friends l entered the edifice in good
time on Sunday evening, trust with a
devout spirit and peaceful frame of
mind, fully anticipating an edifying and
erudite sermon, showing depth of
thought and well-evolYed principles,
something new and old out of a rich
treasury, like the householder of other
times when he invited guests.
In the reading of the lesson by Bishop
Warren l was surprised to hear him
pronounce parent as if written par
rent, and Sloan as if written Sill
loan. They may be pardoned
as localisms, but sound bad
from scholar. He gave for his
text, Ephesians iii, Il to d, but did not
read them at first, leaving that until
further on ii his remarks. It was
meant to be an eXpository discourse,
and not topical or teXtual sermon, |
could see ct once, for there is ground
work for dozen of sermons on as many
different subjects in the whole text. |
like expository discourses, if they are
ably handled. But | was much disap-
pointed with the Bishops effort. The
introduction was certainly extraneous
to the entire subject, and really had no
bearing on it; and was very far-fetched
and unnecessarily fanciful. He asked
which of the Apostles was tho fc,,c .-,re
zen Christian Was it Thomas, the
doubter? and then described him lit
Was it John? and then depicted him
fauded him up highly. Then as
the Methodists. Which of his epistles
was the best? Was it the one to the Ga
latians2 describing it. No. Was it the
letter to the Romans? describing it.
Was it the epistle to PHILIPPIANS? de-
scribing it. No. 1t was the Ephesian
letter in which is his text. Quite time
was consumed in this in apropo
talk Then he read few verses of the
text as far as the 18th. Now, said he.
I will give you a little Greek exegesis.
felt now that we would have treat in
his science Of Interpretation. He said
the word chat in Greek, hina.
should be rendered sin order that" and
he emphasized those words most I'M
mercifully and unnecessarily, with a
number of platitudes we had heard a
thousand times in our lives. There was
no more Greek given US and no more
exegesis, and that was really useless, for
the word that" read with en-
order that" Hind may be defined
sin order that, " ''to the end that" "so
that as well as that" and the re.
vised edition" in the latter clause of the
18th verse gives it 'to the end that" to
break the monOtony of too many that's
but they give it in the proper place to
make it expressive.
There is so much in the verses of the
text, in which Greek exegesis is needed
that it should have been given under
that promise in an expository discourse
He might have told us first that the
word 'Ephesus" in the first verse is
omitted; and it is supposed that thi:
epistle was addressed to the Laodiceans
rather than the former, but should have
explained why it is held to be genuine
now. No doubt it was n general letter
to several churches, with blank left II
the first verse for the particular church
to which one of the several copies would
be sent. This would have been apropo,
and better than the talk about Thomas
Peter, John and Paul.
Again, in the 14th verse, the words
''of our Lord Jesus Christi are not in
the revised edition-being left out, as
probably the Interpolation of some
meddling priest who could not show his
zeal in the times of controversy. with.
out forging and forcing the words into
the text. Griesbach's text has the
words, but Tischendorf's superior one
has not, The commission of the words
are important, as it now shows
that the family (fatherdom or father.
hood) in heaven and earth re-
ceiveS its name from God, thus
Paul bent his knees to the PGter, ia.
Their, from which every patriG. literally
fatherdom Tor as in the revised margin
fatherhood) in heaven and earth re-
ceiVeth its name. In the original pdtrid