The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-12
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

ton to suppose that organic Christ
/ ian union can be effected by simply
accepting the Bible as the. only creed.
There are many religious organizations
each of which profess to take the
tBible and the Bible alone" as its
creed, but they differ in Church polity
and in doctrine, and are notably
among the most narrow and sectarian
of all the denominations. The denom-
inations must work out their Destiny
and organic union come about, if it
come about at all, by the survival of
/ the fittest.-Lutheran World.
Tastes differ, we admit When an
Evangelist is advertised as possessing
the fervor of Moody, the Characters
tics of speech of Sam Jones, and the
nervous energy of Harrison, the boy
preacher, and when it is said that
while gentle as lamb in his private
life he is a son of thunder in the
pulpit" we, for our part, are inclined
to keep on the other side of the street
l-Congreg ationalist.
The speculative question of the des-
tiny of the heather after death may
be postponed or remanded to the arena
of theological debate. The great ques-
ton which faces the missionary is
what he can do for the spiritual, NOR
| al and practical elevation of the peo-
pie among whom he lives. Their des-
tiny after death may be left, like the
destiny of all humanity, to the full
lfllment of the divine purpose.-Christ-
ian Register.
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body OF the ministry in the several
denominations have lost faith in the
traditional dogmas and have banished
them from their experience. But this
can be only temporary. There are
those who are Jealous for the old paths
and the traditional modes of statement
these will ere long bring on the cris-
is; and the inevitable result will be
either the transformation of the de-
nominations or the gradual Withdraw
| al from them of ministers and people.
Professor Charles A. Briggs, in the
Forum for November.
Perhaps no doctrine is receiving
greater impulse and enlargement than
that of the brotherhood of man. This
lexpansion and enrichment of Christian
! thought in the direction Of universal
ideas and sentiments is the healthful
and necessary development toward the
| fulfillment of the inspirations of uni
versal religion and universal truth
Christian Register.
| The revised version of the New Tes-
| lament has somewhat obscured its
teachings by the translation of two
Greek words of different meanings by
the same English word. The two
Greek words Hades and Gehenna, the
first meaning the place or abode of all
the dead, irrespective of character, and
the second meaning a place in which
the wicked only are cast, have both
been translated by the English word
hell. The English word hell etymo-
logically signifies, as does the Greek
word HadeS, an invisible and concealed
place, and was fittingly applied to the
abode of the dead. But the English
word hell came, long ago, to denote a
place of punishment, and to be. there
| fore, d mistranslation of Hades. and,
more correctly. translation of Ge-
| henna.
| The old classics of China going back
to the time of Abraham, show a won
derful knowledge of God. There are
passages in those classics about God
worthy to stand side by side with kim
dred passages in the Old Testament
The founders of the Chinese race be-
lieved in an omniscient, o1nnipotent,
and onnipresent God the moral gov
ernor of the world and the impartial
judge Of man.
In Greece, as in India, the worshipers
often rose into a region immeasurably
higher than that of their mythology.
To both the name for the bright hea-
ven had become name for the One
only God. This is the Dyaus pitar of
the Vedas, the Ecu pater of the Greeks,
| the Jupiter of the Romans; and that
means in all these languages what it
meant before they were torn asunder-
It means Heaven Father! - Literary
| Digest.