San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-26
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER rs 1889.
MOUNTAIN PINES.


There, changeless all the seasons
through,
That green cathedral lifts its spires,
The first to catch the morning dew,
The last to hold the sunset fires.
Within its aisles no sound is heard
While Summers service deck the
nave;
Its altar knows no priest; no bird
Sings from the emerald architrave.
But when, wrapt in her shroud Of
snow,
Beneath the roof lies earth asleep,
A mournful music, measured, slow,
Wakes in the summit of yOn steep.
That solemn dirge of Winter brings
The heart to ponder thoughts dl-
vine;
1t is Gods harper strikes the strings
Stretched on the forest harp OF pine!
EVEN the most conservative religious
opinion sees the necessity of putting
itself in harmony with the more ad-
vanced ideas of scripture inter-
Interpretation and wise forecasting
of the drift of public opinion in mat
ters theological calls for moderation
in denonncing as intidel all who do
not utter the old shibboleths of the
schools. The following from lions
Heraldis in point:
We hold that the attempt to fasten
the name of nationalist" upon rev.
erent and evangelical investigators
who hold firmly to the supernatural
inspiration and divine authority OF
the scriptures, simply because they
differ from ourselves as to the mode
and extent of that inspiration and as
to questions of a literary character
- questions on which there
has always been dispute among Or
thodox men is to import an unau-
thorized meaning into the word
nationalist" is to discourage critical
research, to put premium on deceit
full methods of dealing with the Word
of God, is to ed ucate the Church in a
direction from which rebound Is
sure to come; and we hold that such
a proceeding is unconciously born Of
a faith that is weak and fearful.
The higher criticism which the bet
ter instructed and more advanced re-
ligious teachers accept as legitimate,
the criticism OF reason upon the mean
ing of scripture, and which distin-
gushing between literary questions
and the divine revelation in the book
itself leaves fair field for the exer-
else of human reason-this critl-
cism is being accepted as useful rath-
or than hurtful to the intelligent stu
dent of scripture. In this the church
is evidently growing wiser.
THE New York Pioneer, prohibit
bition organ, uses some very strange
logic in its argument against license.
In its issue of September 18th the
Pioneer says:
"Forty-five out of sixty-tive recent
indictments before the grand jury at
Au0usta, Me-, were for violations OF
the law prohibiting the sale of liq-
uors. Nearly every druggist i'll the
CITY and many hotel, keepers were in
dicted, and each man paid his fine OF
500 and costs, and departed, in near
iv every case, to continue his trans
gressions. About three times each
wear. it is said. whenever the grand
iurv sits. these law-breakers &c
through with the farce of being in
dicted and fined, and then continue
to prosecute their illegal business as
unconcernedly as though under the
protection Of $500 license. And this
is practically what it amounts to
Shall we say, then. that prohibitloI
doesn't prohibit, and that hlgf
license would be better thing 10
Augusta than the present prohlbltory
law? To take such stand Is TO up
hold the law-breakers and Sanction
the gross neglect of duty on the par
of Augusta officers in not enforcing
the laws of the state.
The paying of this $500 a year in tn
capital of the great prohibition state
of the union as fines for selling liquo
as cited above means that virtua
licence of $500 year is paid by tn
Iiouor seller. What advantage doe
the state and the cause of temperate
and morals gain by doing bushes
under false pretenses? The Valu
of untruth is asserted, the benefit
of bying are demonstrated, and tn
moral sense of a whole communit
is prostituted to the fanatical idea
of a few. Public sentiment does nc
endorse the prohibitory law or
would be enforced; i: does endors