The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-21
Note the snapper and the end of the whip

it came to pass, in the course of nature, by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge OF God,
mat the frightened, fleeing IsraeliteS found the
bar so barred that they could cross it. BY The
course of nature: Certainly. So the record
says. The Lord caused the sea to go back by
strong east wind all night. That is nature not
miracle. That is the way the Red sea bar is al
ways barred. The ISraelites came safely through
between the deep waters on eaca side. The
Egyptians plunged in after them, hot-headed;
but before they had crossed the waters began to
flow down-again-not miraculously, not falling
upon them from wall above their heads, but
slowly rising beneath their feet; a rising tide,
only muddy al first, 50 that they drove heavily,
clogglng their wheels, and even leaving them
sticking fast in the mud The water deepened,
slowly rising, but always rising, SO that the hot
haste of pursuit had time to cool, and leaders
took counsel and decided that it was too danger
Gus to attempt further passage against the
threatening waters, and turned back and fed in
panic-too late, too late!
1.-The feet had hardly time to fee
| Before it brake against the knee
| And all the world was in the sea-
DR.. Talmage asks why not be frank, and
say, I believe the Lord God Almighty came TO
| the brink of the Red Sea- and with His right
arm swung back the pillows on the right SIDE
and with His left arm swung back the pillows
on the left SIDE and the abashed waters stood
up hundreds of feet high. while through their
CLASSY wall the sea monsters gazed With
atfrighted eyes on the passing Israelites7' "
Because we DO not believe it. Because the
Bible does not say so. 1t was Moses who came
to the brink of the Red sea and swung his
arms. That is like man. Tne Lord God
caused the sea to go back by a strong east
wind all night That is like God. Doubles
! Dr. Talmage, with his irrepress BILE energy,
| would have made a much greater stirabout of
the waters right and left t1an the Lord God
made with His commonplace east wind; but,
otter all, the east wind is good deal OF a blow.
Even Dr.. Talmage can not belittie it, nor does
eXegesis require it.
1t is impossible to even glance at all the
arguments advanced by Gail Hamilton in
the three hundred and more pages of her
DOCK, Tor every page almost is an interest
ing study in itself. She wars not against
religion nor against the scriptures but she
does war against the human decree that she
shall accept unquestioned, the dogmatie
definition or Interpretation of religion and
the scriptures handed down by theologians
or councils as human and fallible as herself.
"Of things as they are" she says, "of
Christianity, pure and simple, we scarcely
hear. Whar we are chiefly taught is the
opinions which many generations have
formed about Christianity. When any part
of these opinions is seen to be false and
begins to be reft away, the cry is that
Christianity lies bleeding; that another as
stult has been made upon it," God, she
holds, spoke to Abram as God speaks to US.
Ii there was ally special verbal com
munication, then Abram did not
walk by faith, but by knowledge,
and his obedience has no moral lesson
for US. Literal calls to the patriarchs
and prophets she declines to believe in.
The words of Moses, she holds, can be
safely interpreted, just as the words OF
Emerson are. Morality and religion were
established: society was known to have
existed ages preceding Abram, and the
Jews were not chosen people, except in
the sense that their characteristics made
them the best fitted to cling stubbornly to
their faith in one God, and so they were
chosen to keep alive that faith and hand il
) down to the modern world. All this Gail
; Hamilton goes into most fully. She then
attacks the ancient forms of worship by
wood and stone and burnt offerings; holding
that they are entirely pagnastic, and quot
Ing literally from the prophets To prove
that Mosaic law was not of necessity divine
; law, and that blood sacrifices were ire
quently declared abhorrent to the Lord
did animal sacrifice she asks, 'tmake
smooth the path for the Messlah!' The
sacrifices were in full blast when he was
born babe in Bethlehem and that blast
was turned on him to destroy him."
The passover is described as a simple
hasty family meal preparatory 10 a hard
Journey next day. Those who partook of il
ate, as it were, sin travelling dress, with
their shawl straps in their hand" 1.-THE
81 aughter was not intended to be sacri
fee. 1t was only that they had a hearty
subsequent burning of what had not been
eaten was sanitary and not sacritcial."
This is enough to show, without going
into the numerous arguments or illustra
lions on the topic, that all sacrificial rites
are unmeaning and abhorrent to the author
of the book. They were tolerated, she
says, by the Savior as ancient Jewish Gus
5 toms, but never received His encourage
ment or endorsement. While the passover
} feast might be tolerated among Jews as
sort of emancipation celebrations festiv
ity-it could properly have no place in any
Christian ceremony. Here is a character
istic quotation:
When the divine aspiration in man began t.
reach out into worship by offerings, into wor
ship by slaughter of beasts, we do not know. II
4 was not in the Garden of Eden. 1t did not ap
S pear outside of Eden till after process OF
time" Possibly the story OF Cain and Abe
epitomizes the first institution of animal sacri
: flee, The departure from The peaceful and harm
less fruit-offerng OF the elder brother, or tn
earlier race, Cam, to the bloody and viole
J. | beast Offering OF the younger brother, or tn
: | later race, Abel. 1t is true that the represen
!, tative of fruitoffering has Jared badly at tn,
:? hands of the world, but it must be remembers,
9 that he on the losing SIDE The beast
+ worshippers prevailed The observation-disclosures
K told the story and had it all their own way. w
J. have not yet heard Gains side.
5 ''Never," says the author, in anothe
e place, sis human sacrifice even assumed t
be ordained of God in the Bible after tn
one sacrifice of Isaac, and that is sacri
u flee forbidden"
And thus the New Testament is an
preached, the author asserting as she pro
ceeds that "the attitude of Christ and tn
y apostles toward all Mosaic Institutes
i wherein the ordinance of sacrifice is i'm
a bedded was one of liberal conservatism
a occasionally of cordial indignation, genel
lie ally of moderation and charity They Sc
n lnI1n 0aH lint %,
+ planted
n Thus the arguments proceeds until tn
last snpper, in the shadow of the fns
l., tragedy is reached. The writer says:
e The same night in which he was BETRAYED I
v the same spirit of mudation and aspira
e ton, our Lord took the least of the passover
= eliminated from it every possible relic {
10 10 his disciples, made it the tenderest memoir;
l. to himself and an emancipation celebration fc
: all the neutrality-suspicious. from the old COW
7. naat OF blood tie the new covenant of purit
The old passover was meal for Strengthenin
the body; the Lords farewell supper wa
n chiefly for the consolation and sustenance
n the soul. 1t was a sad festival for the ma
lie Christ Jesus was parting from his friends, an
lie the shadow of his troubled spirit fell upon the
lie loving, anxious, ignorant carts. The passove
ST Dad been hurried feast, with time enough NJ
lie only to satisfy hunger, but enough for rasl
81 headlong, but real love TO protest against tn
lie Masters object lesson in humility time enoug
lr Tor the curious but not over-contident disciple
or TO urge the confident love OF John upon q
81 anxious question which was answered and nc
le rebuked; time enough for the avarice OF Juda
oy attending under the disguise of affection TO Sc
as itself detected and dismissed to the sincerit
IS. of crime, TO the eternal punishment of rernors
tie and human infamy; time enough for a conve
sation whose fragmentary reports is our mo
dear and cherished legacy of the human hea
., OF Christ. 1t was glorious supper, for in il
I'd gentle and solemn friendliness was symbolic
e. and signalized the redemption of the worl
n. from the old domain of blood and beasts to til
nj new domain of love and light.