The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-24

70 MS uisonhrPo without cost In the marine
eorps, the price is 500 to start with. then one
per cent per month OF the total yearly pay. In
addition to the 500. throughout the second
year when the maximum price is reached
Then the price Is decreased from this maxi
mum By per cent. per month OF the total
yearly pay until four years OF enlistment have
expired, after which the price remains without
further change through the fifth year. This.
be 1t observed. Is the rule for the first enlist
ment: but for tho sesond there 10 another
series OF rates. In the navy the price for the
fourth month Of enlistment is only % per cent.
OF the yearly pay. while In the fifth month It 10
80 per cent. so going on with increases OF
per cent. per month until the fourteenth
month. Then during tho fifteenth the price
becomes 80 per cent Of that maximum. and
thereafter decreases 5 per cent per month un-
I'll the discharge is granted without cost at the
thirty fourth month. II then applied for. The
naval apprentices have still another schedule
OF charges.
This diversity Of rates is very striking, The
system OF fines In the army, which was the first
to be fixed. Ia the simplest. being based on the
calculated average cost OF recruiting, trans
porting. food. and SO On. with allowances for
service rendered. and then decreasing regu-
larly to the end OF the three years, whom re-
lease is optional But there is, OF course.
further consideration as to the period OF on
listment whom the services OF the recruit may
be considered most valuable. and the systems
OF reckoning in the navy and the marine corps
have become quito elaborate.
On the general question OF the expediency
OF the system there have been diverse opinions.
but on the whole 1t seems wiser to open this
honorable path out OF the service. which.
though 1t takes some good men away. yet also
has greatly decreased assertions. The navy
and the marine corps are therefore entitled to
such advantages as we'll as the army
the new word for I, s srays
p,sn shs Thing s It to MAXI name for IS We could
Once in while. unconsciously Us It appears.
the hankerinr Of the Boston saRes to get out Of
manifests itself. Let them come. by wings or
otherwise! There is room for them here.
That contentious Biblical critic, Rabbi
ISAAC NJ WISE. publishes in the American
Israe'te an essay in which no refers to the
authorship OF the four Gospels. Here ia O
passage which we quote literally:
None of tho four Gospels was written by jews
They wrote in the second century, and not in tho nrs
and when they did write II they were jews by BIRTH
they must have been Christians for long time. for
each of them has his particular Christian dogmas to
establish The oldest OF hem MARK, came to Jerusalem
about 1870 A. O.. as Bishop and there he wrote his
Gospel. and he was GENTLE from Alexandria All OF
them quote Scriptures from the septuagnt none from
the Hebrew Why, Because they were not jews and
were not conversant with the Hebrew"
We are sure that these assertions Of tho dis.
putatious rabbi will create surprise among all
scholars. Christian and Jowish who are familiar
with the history of the New Testament. 1t has
been the judgment OF the best criticism that all
the books. OF both tho Old Tesla m ent and the
New. were written by men Of the Hebrew race
born in JUDAISM. and that consequently all the
authors of the four Gospels were OF that race
descendants Of ABRAHAM: and that these Cos
pels were written not in the second. but in the
first century OF tho Christian era MARX was
not Gentle from Alexandria" hut q Jew Of
Jerusalem. where was the house OF his mother
MARY. who gave him the surname Of MARE.
He left Jerusalem about the timo JAMES the
Elder was executed. and he suffered martyr
dom at Alexandria nearly half century be-
fore "13o A. c." or. as Christians say. A. D.
We presume tho Gospel writer's quoted
Scriptures from the Septuagint." because that
version Of the Old Testament was largely
used and highly esteemed in that time. even
in Jud@a: and it Is q mere assumption OF
Rabbi WISE that. because they used 1t. they
were not conversant with the Hebrew"
We apprehend that the pugnacous Rabbi
ISAAC N. WISE may not be as we'll informed
respecting the history OF the New Testament
as no is respecting that Of the Old. We think
that his notions about the authorship Of tho
four Gospels are out OF accord. not only with
the records and the belief Of Christendom. but
also with the patient researches Of modern
scholarship
We cannot suppose. as reasonable beings
that rho rabbi IL merely desirous that We
shall understand that the writer's OF the Cos
pels were not Jews. or believers in Judaism.
after they became Christians. II that he hio
purpose. we must romark that his assertions
are deserving OF smile rather than Of serious