The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-26
A STRING OF PROTESTS.
Ida s." Thinks 1t About Time to
Stir Things Up.

Stir Things Up.
EDITOR AND FRIENDS-There is
nothing like having a kicker where's
'Incog?'O around once in a while, if it's
only to get the furniture and carpet
busted little.
Now. the page hasn't been up to my
ideas lately. What are you all doing
| lately? Sun struck. are you? Are you
going to let Talmage run your part of
the paper, small as it is? Perhaps you
think he can do better? Well, that's
| just as people think Your think don't
| constitute all there is of that. Seems to
me Talmage monOpoliZes enough, you
| know. What with his tabernacle, his
| paper. magazines and all the papers,
big and little. who print his sermons
| and his notoriety. I'd think he would
| have a surfeit. For my part, l can't
see why we all have to take the same
| dose will or nil, no difference what the
stage of ones disease may be. For my
| part l think there are thousands of us
| who, when we feel like reading a ser
mon, would like a change to some of
| the old sermons of Bishop Brooks, or
| the new ones of Abbot, Swing, Potter,
| Schaef and others OF all things deplOr-
| able it's a corner on sermons. You all
| know my opinion of Talmage, and it's
| not his particular church that Is the
| cause of it. One church L consider as
| good as another. But l do not like his
style his lack of logic, his deductions,
nor many of his statements, and alto
| gether go back on his reasons for this
| and that. They will not hold or con-
| vince where conviction is needed.
don't like sermons gotten up on some
| strange old miracle, such as the opening
| Of the Red sea for the favored few
/ brought in then comparison to an
edifce saved, that really was saved by
| % cents on the dollar. People who
| claim the first false would say it was a
| good simile for the second. There was
| one thing Christ taught and that was
| honesty, and he wanted no fine edifice,
| even paid for, to speak in, and he did
| not hold to every old tradition and ia
| BILE the Jews had handed down, either.
| or he would not have got into so many
| disputes with them.
| There is just this about Talmage if
| II happened for him to have been born
/ under Mohammedan rule he would have
| preached the bOldest legends that ever
| clustered around the history of Ma
| homet as truth and inspiration. What
| is it that distinguishes from the
brute? 1t is thought, thinking. And
| why do some of us. knowing this, get
| but little beyond the barbarian in our
made of thought, so hate to think for
ourselves. so much more contented to
| let others think for us. and accept all
| they have to give in unquestiOning
| faith? This coupled with hatred of
/ the masses to give UP old ideas for new.
| even though the new plainly show more
| reason, is one of the reasons, / suppose,
| why all newspapers give us the same
| sermons from the same man. 1t gets
| a little monOtOnous though to have this
kept up year after year. especially when
| you take over half a dozen papers. You
| feel as though you were paying for too
| much of the same thing.
| "GanO," | can not feel as you do over
| the late ''Drummond" controversy on
the page. 1 think we could have stood
a little more of it. / don't see the use
of getting tired so soon over every de-
| bate that comes up. If we shut down on
| them in that way we soon cause the
really interested ones i'm the page to
| lose heart. No person can write inter
| estingly unless an incentive is given
| him. / heard a very learned man say
| the "Drummond" dialogue was really
the only true literary phase the page
had shown to him for some tinme
There are many like him who will not
read the page unless they see il has
left narrow and restricted lines of
thought. The first proofs of true liter
airy knowledge are comparison and
judgment on what you read. This we
had in this debate.
| One person sent me word that through
a word or two written by Lone Tramp"
he was led to look up the history of
Calvin and his works. OF course he had
the same idea we all have (and he was
born of Calvinist forefathers) over Cal
WINS treatment of Servetus, and the
only heresy Calvin's friend seems to
have proclaimed was that reason should
be mans guide in all things and some
remarks on the triune or GOdhead of
three I'm one. Servetus was a scholar,
| and he felt that from the spurious work
| ascribed to Athanasius the doctrine of
the trinity had long after the days of
| Christ been fastened onto the Christian
| religion. Servetus felt that from pa
ganism this idea of three gods or three
in one had come. He knew the eight
great religions are teemed with such
| ideas. He knew that in the Hindoo re-
ligion, Brahma, Vishnu and silva were
| three in one. With this difference to
our belief silva in the Hindoo triune is
| the destroyer. while the third person
in our belief is the spirit or teacher
Brahma is the Hindoo god, the creator,
the father. Vishnu was the savior.
|. | He came on earth several times, and
the accounts of him show he was tempt
ed by the devil and the male children
! killed in hope that he would be killed
, | with them IL found among the legends
, of Vishnu, or Krishna, the name he
took while on earth. Calvin believed
these old Oriental religions to be but
myth and because Servetus believed
many of these incidents said to have
| happened to Christ myth also, he
was burned for heresy. My friend. who
| is professional man, deplOfe0 the idea
that a medical work written by Servetus
on the circulation of the blood in the
lungs was burned with him, too, as
! heresy. Burned at a time when true
medical science struggling 10 get
rid of the metaphysical absurdities an
ignorant past had piled upon and held
down by it's paralyzing schools of medi-
cine you might say.
tell you. friends, it's no wonder
, fatalistic. doctrines came from such
l o-Fc lraf iC nr1f1 Tor hot DO
we sit so calmly by and see the old
doctrines handled even with gloves.
They should all go to the flames, where
In Michael Servetus suffered. and new
doctrine, just one, and that charity
alone built upon their ashes. Such con-
tradictions as old doctrines contain,
we'll words fail.
Everybody. 1 suppose. has a right to
an opinion, only they should be taken
at their worth and not classed as truth
until facts prove them that. So to the
members who thought Briggs was lit
tie off when he preached contrary doc