Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-03-03
|. Theological Dilemma
Continued.
Waubay Thompson Contributes
Another Article.

World ; 1 didn't intend to cali
yoa any bad names.
Ny limited "perceptiye facul-
ties now perceive that, like the
Crusader, one may fight for that
which reason or intelligence has
little to do with.
Mark Twain says : .'Faith is
belief in what yon know isn't trne'
4 have been called infidel, skephc,
and had my lame coupled with
that of III. l.. Leucks, but l do not
think l was aver called a hypocrite.
] hold no opinion for which i feel
shame and | sincerely pity one who
apparently has neither the courage
nor intelligence to make plain the
ssdivine truths" he champions.
Some appear to have an abundance
Of ''breath, time or space to waste"
ID denouncing those who differ
from them, but no time to waste
in discussing subjects that are
conveniently said to "admit of no
human solution. But Mr.. Web
ster World must understand tho
that We are not living in the time
of Calico from 1910 to 1853. 1t is
useless to try the tactics OF Pope
Urban VIII.
will give, for my friends ben
eft, the ~recantation of the astron.
omer 81, Calico. being in my
SEVENTEEN year, heing a prisoner.
and on my knees, and before your
Eminences, having before my eyes
the ID oily Gospel, which / touch
with my hands, abjure, curse and
detest the error and the heresy
Of the movement of the earth"
But, notwithstanding the whole
power Of the Catholic church was
brought to bear against it, the
earth,-not the World, - moves
today.
Pope Paul v. soIemnly rendered
a a1e4ec that ssthe doctrine OF the
double motion Of the earth abeut
It's axis, and about the sun, is false
and contrary to Holy Scripture.
Sappnslng the formulation upon
which the moral, social and relig-
ions structures of our present civil
ration rests depended upon the
truth, or falslty, of the decree of
Pope Psal n. Nearly every I'M
portant scientific discovery ever
made was opposed, by theology,
with the same plea.
Frankie, with his lightning rod,
was circnmventing the Almighty,
or the Dewitt was not kaown
which. The use of chloroforu. to
lessen the pangs of childbirth was
condemned because it was warning
against the DEGREES OF Jehosah,
who pronounced that curse upon
I've. Most horrible cruelty was
prsctlced upon the insane because
Luther aud Calvin said thas iasan-
ity was demonlacal possession and
Satan must be handled 'switnout
gloves"
~ good John Wesley asserted
s'most Inmates are demoniacs, and
TO give MP w~itchcraft is to give
mp the Bible" We don't believe
in witchcraft today, yet some will
contend that the only way to reach
the impcnitent is to "give them
hell / suppose If it was the
so called Goods language" that the
moon was made of green cheese,
the World would never allow one
the right 0 notice whether s.divine
revelation stated that the COW or
the moon wis made first, or If he
dad he must not say anything about
il. Has il VA been revealed to
YOU, friend World, that the Ian,
gpage used in the 3sth chapter Of
Genesis is equally MS pure as The
18th chapter Of First Corinthians
h.ss * net seem ~sinenlar TO vot
.happy shall be be who taketh ana
1ssheth thy little ones against til,
stones" should be inspired by {.
God OF Infinite merby . What dix
the Lord want Of tie virglnl
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