Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-20
THE WORD OF GOD.

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Mrs. ST. Johns lecture at the NJ. f..
church Sunday evening, was a most
astonishing revelation TO some of her
listeners. The wife of q minister, her
self an evangelist, an eXpounder of the
gospel, boldly declared that "the scrip
| lures we have to-day are the same
that cane from the hands of Euscbius,
Jerome, Polycap, Ignatius, Clemen; of
Alexandria; and other great lights of
the ancient church. "Dear madam
have you forgotten, or did you ever
learn2 that the figure-head fathers you
referred TO were Greek, and Roman
catholics, and that the bible you claim
to have perused so diligently is King
James edition, gotten up purposely to
extirpate the errors of papistry, which
they effected by substituting errors Of
Professionalism and changing whole
texts and sentences grammatically and
otherwise TO suit themselves, and then
As the Catholic church we.e the custo-
dams of the scriptures for so long a
time before heretics got hold fit, are
you sure that they did not change it
just a little in order to sustain their
theological views, it has ever been a
Jesuit;cal maxim, "The end justifies
the means" Certainly the good pa
dres of to-day have what may be
termed an elastic conscience, where
"the good of the holy church" de-
mands il TO be stretched, and | may
be pardoned if infer from the data
and historical facts in my possession
that the ascetic marks of the early
ages had the good of the holy church
equally at heart. Then you denounce
the people who are unwilling to intro
duce the bible in the common schools
as "enemies of the schools, enemies of
their country, enemies of their God"
did you reflect that these same schools
were kept up by the taxes of members
of the modern churches and believes
in having Judaism and ancient Cathol-
icity, and it would be cruel to reflec
upon the teachers(who haven't time 10
devote an hour a day to that greatest
educator, mental arithmetic.) a Greek
Catholic, Roman Catholic, King James
edition, and revised testament. and
yet in our land of free religious beliefs
there would be no alternative.
The dead relics of dead past tum-
BILE dangerously above unseen pitfalls.
The bombshell of thought has explod-
ed the myths of theology.
Mrs. 81. John, like many others,
must go through the startling expert
ence that she has been taught. thst
wrong was right, and fable was fact.
Scientific research and history prove
thst the Jewish writers were compar-
atiyely modern race of men: that men
existed 100000 years before Abraham
and were civilized, aud had developed
arts and sciences 10 degree we have
not begun TO equal. The Mosaic ac-
count OF the history of the world vas
but the expiring flash of primeyal IL
Elimination, almost literally swallowed
up by the deepening gloom of ages.
The old manuscripts We're lost thou
sands of years ago, and so utterly lost
that the language they were written
in had become a dead tongue when
Genesis, Exodus, ,Leviticus, Numbers
and Deuteronomy were put forth. So
much for the absurd myth that man
was made out of dust and woman
out of his ribs myth no better, no
worse than dozens of other myths |
thousands of years older than Moss,
and yet this is the basis OF Chstn1fnai
theology. Dr. Pnoz
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