The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-20
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sheIdon,s Dissertation and tIowe's BLasphemy.
N. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

Sheldon'S Dissertation and HOwe'S BlaSphemy.
Editor Howe having concluded his series sermons
"as woulr have preached Them" nearer
reaching the pattern set for himself Shell
DON only one of HOwes sermons devoted shedons
venture but that incontestbly Sheldon to be
crank sheIdons sole creed is Cruelty! crucify" Those
who read the numbers been
struck with the mans prohibition
tion for instance him. win the greater intoxicant
is all right at the communion table because says
is But beer as beverage the social family table,
is crime. There the beer than in the
wine even though of limo
of the crime.
Some of the papers country hold the Reverend
Sheldon to sensational ountebank at best
mitator Parhurst Tamage, while the editors who
personally credit him with being honest man
can honest time fanatic, be both
earnest and honest and at the same unjust AS
view Sheldon great lack minister is charity, and
his great need as public beralty He has the
stuff in him for witch-burner Howe, al
to- illustrates this pharasacal phase of the who
boasts co-capacity with Christ When the prohibition
fight redhot. in Topeka under the leadership Of
men, OF whom got drunk periodically this man,
otherwise procured four bottles of beer
worthy old who then in the drug business,
but who had soldier having proered his life
in defense his country bottles of
beer pulpit Sunday morning, proceeded to
preach sensational sermon a of which old
soldier was sent to Jail In may been
both honesty and earnesness but nothing of
Christ or Christianity nothing charity bera1y,
only fanatcism the crank who sticer for the
coincide with his particular convictions.
1t may be a sin to eat hog meat a to tobacco,
sin to eat rich condiments coffee,
moral aesthetical physical view, and
mankind no doubt would be better
hundred things. when the deagogue steps in
as legislator in response cry fanaticsm
makes crime these delinquencies physical
teer1orators such cannot not enforced
least with all the vfgor desired by the fanatic.
Howe may have no use for Of Christ, may
dsbeieve In Him. and
factory existence ends all; Sheldon may in the name
of Jesus call screw which makes
crimes denquencies while incidentally
ing fifty week; yet remains
love compassion the charity of Christ than
human; they divine His forgiveness and
only forgiveness More sacred Him than OF
Caesar obligatory than the laws of the Roman en-
pre, under which born, those handed down
Heaven Sinai through the hands of Moses But
when it came to dealing with frailties of humanity
Him. superior all written laws forgfving
very condemned under
and forgving the woman been taken an open
other. Let is without sin
you cast first stone" was more than human wisdom
but under such an invitation Sheldon would conscenousy
prohibtory law get up
the night shy few at random dark
Christs life was love, love only He never called
for the enforcement of other the
He lived for love died love-
ity pretended followers only penal
whether as Howe says Christ mythical there is
myth history tradition earth or heaven embody-
ing much Of the best in the human heart so much that
Godke that preached by Sheldon in his
Jesus edition"
AS for anything else nothing pertaining religion
Jesus or the morals of mankind nothing making for
earthly contentmen Or the hope Of happiness; nothing
dwellers of earth materially
morally spiritually has been accomplished by the con-
editor or the preacher while upon
hand things names sacred to the hearts Of
many beltted and blasphemed proaned and
desecrated
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