The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-13

last clause is in fiat contradiction of
the federal and state constitutions, all
of which provide that no religious test
shall be required as a qualification to
any offlce or public trust Any MEM
Der of the American Protective Asso-
citation who is elected to an Office to
which attaches the power of appoint
ment must perjure himself. If ne ap-
point Catholics, he is false to his
American Protective Association oath;
! if he refuses to appoint Catholics. he
| is false to his oath of Office. More
over, he swears, as a member of the
society, to guide his private, political
conduct by a principle repudiated by
the Constitution. 1t is a denial of the
principle for which Baptists have
strenuously commended for centuries,
the right of every man to worship God
according to the dictates Of his own
conscience, without molestation from
any other human being.
The New York Examiner. speaking
of the new light which the churches
receive as to the meanings of Scrip
ture, remarks:
OF course, the individual conscious
ness Of the believer is not to be tyran-
nized by creeds or councils, but left
| free, under the guidance of the spirit,
| to determine for himself what the
! Word does actually teach. But this
does not touch the question as to
where the authority rests to deter
mine what is the faith of the church
as a whole, and as such binding upon
Its ministers who have subscribed to
| its standards. That authority can
only rest with its constitutional repre-
sentatives duly elected. The voice of
their majority is not an expression of
mere personal opinion. 1t is an ex-
preston of the mind of the church,
and as such should be regarded by all
as of great weight and Importance.
In church councils, however, as truly
as in affairs of state, it should al
ways be remembered that the human
capacity for experimenting divine
truth is necessarily limited, that the
finite cannot grasp the infinite, and
that the great truths of revelation are
SO many-sided that those who differ
In their way of looking at them may
not be so far apart in their religious
thinking as is sometimes supposed.
The question, WAS there ever a
fiood?" meaning such a flood as that
recorded in Genesis. received a re-
Spouse recently in a scientific discus
sion of the subject by Professor
Prestwich, F. R. S, at the Victoria
Institute, London. A report in the
Bulletin of the institution says:
The author described at considerable
length the various phenomena which
had come under his observation dur
ing long years Of geological research
in Europe and the coasts of the Medi-
terranean. Among these he specially
referred to having found the flints of
the drift to be of two classes, one with
bones of animals, carved, and inter-
spersed with the remains of man. and
the other which he termed the Rub
I ble-drift, containing bones of animals
of all ages and kinds in vast heaps.
He cited the confirmatory opinions on
this point of Professor Geikie F. r.
S, a member of the Institute, and
drew special attention to the geologi-
cal surroundings Of these strange de-
posts, and the manner in which the
bones were found. He then referred
to phenomena in regard to raised sea
beaches. and the constant occurrence
of head the large masses of trans
ported rock, loan and Loess, covering
the high plains in Hungary and South
ern Russia, and the Ossfferous Brec-
cias in various localities. From the
circumstances attending these and
their surroundings he said he had
been forced to the conclusion that all
their phenomena were only expIica-
bic on the hypothesis of a widespread
and short submergence, followed by
early re-elevation, and this hypothesis
satisfied all the important conditions
of the problem" which forced one to
recognize that there had been a sub
mergence of continental dimensions.