The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-04
CHURCH And CREED
DR.. Heber NewtOn'S Great Work
Ready for Publication.
HIS CASE PUT IN STRONG TERMS
What Folly Of Narrowness and Bigorty Goes
Under tae Name Of Churchmanship"-
How to Read a Greed.

Especial TO THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.
NEW YORK, July 3.-Rev. DR.. r. Heber
Newton, rector of All Souls church
charged with heresy in denying the COM
plete inspiration Of the Scriptures, the vir-
gin birth of Christ, the bodily resurrection
OF Jesus, and also with uncanuonical prac-
tees IN inviting unordained ministers to
speak In his church, has completed mis- de-
tense. His position is stated in his forth
coming book called ''Church ana Creed
to be published by Putnams 1t will be
given TO the public next week.
Speaking of this book to-day, Newton
said: II have stated my case in the
strongest possible terms, much stronger
than l usually do in the pulpit and much
stronger than they were reported in the
daily press"
In his book DR.. Newton SAYS: "What
Jolly OF narrowness and bigotry goes under
the name OF cnurchmansnip. Sometime
since L was suddenly asked if il wac nos
slble TO be saved out of the Episcopal
church. After nineteen centuries Of study
of the words and life of Christ there are
sheep OF the Good Shepherd who will show
their loyalty TO Him by never going into
another fold Nineteen centuries of study
OF the words and life Of Jesus leave US in
the presence Of many under shepherds
of the one Good Shepherd who will not
themselves perform any Office of the shep-
herd IN another field, nor allow the shep-
herds of another fold to perform such OIL
ces IN their own fold. If the Good Shep-
herd foresaw how His own underlinps
would fence on His folds and try to bring
the sheep from one fold to another, thus
TO brand them with the mark OF God, how
He must have sighed over the want of the
nPa1f hot ba, II,
feelings if thus He foresaw His own under
shepherds busying themselves in piling
stones ever higher on the walls which sega
rate the sheep OF God in their different
folds and In clubbing with their slaves
those sheep VINO would rear their heads
over the wall to look with kindly eyes upon
the sheep of other folds. And over all this
folly OF sin and ecclesiasticism the Christ
stands with the Infinite father with his pitt
fuI, all-embracing love. saying, Other
sheep have which are not OF this fold
Them also lead and they shall hear my
voice, and they shall be one flock under one
shepherd "
Passing then to the charges of heresy.
DR.. Newton introduces chapters OF the
Nlcene creed and show to read creed -
The Nicene creed he calls "A franchise of
freedom and character of comprenen-
sIon."
The usual effects OF revolution upon in
stitutional religion" he says, ''ars being
now experienced though upon a wholly un-
parallel scale. Confessions OF faith are
taking on that fatal look of unbelievable
ness which foretells their dissolution IN
less they succeed in reiuvenating them
selves" Further on he says: .sMOst Of the
churches are toiling under the yoke OF
creed OF superstition which, though their
fathers may have been able to bear, the
children surely are not. To be loyal to the
truth that IS working in our generation on
every hand, thoughtful men in those
churches ind themselves constrained TO be-
secretly disloyaI TO their tyranous creeds
Faith and reason stand thus ever against
each other In their souls in a hostility
which wrenches their nature apart into a
fatal schism. The dead band OF Calvin
must be relaxed, or life will be stihed ia
the churches over which he still tyranuic-
ally rules from the grave.
who reads the signs of the time sees
clearly one OF two alternatives before our
American Protestantism-the throwing
overheard OF the creeds or simply
flying of those creeds. To-day,
could our Protestant churches be content
TO part with their Reformation confessions
OF faith, or TO relegate them TO the position
which the thirty-nlne articles hold in our
church, and thus to fall back upon that
great catholic creed which has come down
through the centuries and is by our own
church held forth as the common heritage
VI
Christians, awaiting their claiming there
would be an immediate emancipation from
doubt, afull-Dreathed sense of intellectual
honesty and an end OF strife and contention.
Unfortunately for our fetish worshippers, +"
DR.. Newton says, 1.-The councils which put
forth the great creeds are by no means
such immaculate bodies as the infallible or
gans of the Holy Ghost should be.
1.-The story of these councils forms tale
of violent and acrimonious disputes, of
metaphysical hair splitting and theological
iugglery, of bitter passions breaking forth
into words OF execratlon, calling down
anathemas instead of benedictions, scene
of clenched fists and drawn swords, of SOL
diers keeping bishops from each others
Threats, of bloody massacres and stealthy
assassination. What are the themes with
which creed dealsa The profoundest prob
lens which tax mems minds; the riddles
over which successive generations have
puzzled; the nature and character
Of God; in short, the secret of the
universe. And what IS the creature who
feels drawn by an imperious instinct of his
being to rise up and confront the infinite
universe and call upon the sphynx to give
up her secret! A descedent OF the slmian
ape, standing SIX foot high upon an earth
that rolls way through the orbits of the
twenty million worlds which he now recog-
nIzes so far of from the remoter orb, seen
only through the telescope, that light in
which he sees them flashing 195, coo miles
second. moved from them some thousands
of years ago, when the Chaldean astrono-
mers were watching the skies from their
tall towers, a creature of three score years
and ten on cur earth, which has been for
myriads Of centuries sweeping through the
vastness of space, an earth whose term of
existence Is from the day in which it
was flung of from its parent sun
to the day in which it cools
down into barrenness and the last man dies
on its frozen fields, is but moment in the
eternity OF the universe. Such Is the man
who tries to frame a formula in which to
express the secret Of the universe"
Dropped Dead at the Alter.