Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-12

actually been done, when he was dis
fellOwshiped. AT such times he used to
argue that Rome, being fallen church,
had no authority TO confer and no auth
ority TO take away; but that what he
performed was done by authority OF the
books OF the Bible. And this idea was
adopted by lNotestanis as the safer one.
And they claim TO this day TO have their
sole authority In the Bible.
Here Is where the absurdity becomes
most glazing. The sacred volume re-
cords at least two different dispersal
tons. Both claim equal importance /;
both are the works OF God. But they
have different scopes, different ordinan.
ces, different commandments.
Men who claim nothing but the Bible
as their source Of authority have these
alternatives They must either reject
one dspensalion aud accept the other as
the pattern OF their faith and practices,
or they must aCCcp, parts OF both and
reject parts OF both, where the discre-
pancies are iueconcilable This latter
alternative has been chosen by the Pro.
testants. They accept parts Of the Old
Testament and parts Of the New, all
the time trying to make people believe
miserable patchwork OF religion known
as Professionalism and hence the endless
contentious among themselves, because
no two bodies OF christians" and,
indeed, no two prominent individual
theologians can agree between them.
selves about which patches to use and
which to discard.
Romanism is not guilty Of this absur-
III hHltANsN in hs INat
believes also that theology like every
science is progressive that new facts
Gamble discovered and old ones, better
understood. II pre,ends to believe in
the presence Of the Divine Spirit who
guides into all truth and requires It's
followers to accept as truth what the so.
called iniallible representative Of the
Almighty declares to be the truth. This
ends the controversy. What the head
OF the church declares to be the doctrine
OF the church is accepted as such
whether Il is found in so many words In
the Bible, or only in tradition, or in the
records Of the ecumcnical councils.
This is authoritative and saves the
| church from aglaringly absurd position.
In contest with Professionalism Rome
must therefore become victorious. Il
was not the intrinsic value OF the refor.
nation, that saved It from destruction in
northern Europe II was the victorious
arms Of the Swedish hero who gave his
| life for II at lutzen. But for that
Germany would undoubtedly have
| shared the fate OF France and Spain
It was, and still is, contest between
two equally false systems, Romanism
is as radically wrong as Professionalism,
but the former lalsehood has the greater
| appearance oitruth, toa casual observer
at least it has the more elegant surface
| II is therefore more attractive to the
multitude, and Archbishop Ireland can
without fear state that truth" as he see
| H. has nothing to fear from a juxta-
position to error"
From the oriental churches Romanism
has much less to fear. As Protestant
tism is nothing but Romanism crushed
to fragments, so the oriental churches
are the Roman church in her various
stages OF inianlle development. Rome
| progressed so fast in the early centuries
on the path that led her astray, that all
her branches could not follow. They
dropped OIL, one after another and each
remains to this day very much Ns II
was at the time Of secession. They
are powerless in contest of this nature.
In fact, the desire is growing IN the
orient for reunion with the mother
| church.
| Judaism is religion OF the past. Its