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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14

Kansas is complaining that the
rivers that used to ivrigate her lands
are all going drv. That is very
natural. Mrs. Nation has made
the state 90 dry and the old soakers,
having nothing else to soak have, no
iouht gone to soaking water, aud the
rivers possibly couldn't stand the
drain.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14
Our Texas Correspondent
at the Reunion

FDITOR TIMES:-The Con fcdc.atp
Reunion was great g tihering Of people
Your correspondent attended il for tie
first time since they have been held. |
shall be brief in these remarks for am
sure the editor, Il learned that lie was
at Memphis MeSsrs. "Nox. and Tel.
ephone," whom met. will furnish. and
earlier too, the readers Of THE TINE,
with more reunion news han you viii b..
able to publish for lack Of sptc-. SO tia
l will continc my remarks 20 one or twy
subjects which you and they Will 40,
tonch upon.
First | will state that ! SOUGHT thc
South Carolina Headquarters 1t nv
earliest convenience after reacniuy
Memphis. This was on Tuesday night
l found none but strangers, most of
them Carolinans, however, but ike your
humble servant had traGslmgratcd and
are now adopted Sons Of other common.
wealthS. Not the ieast discourage d by
the fruitess attempt to iiUd The Carolina
folks Tue sday night | wended nv way
to the booth again Wednesdty moinins
and asked permission to sean tie roster
where | discovered names Of p,opIs
whom | knew, then my heart iaaped for
JOY becausr | was aware Of the fact Tin. t
L was almost in the midst Of peopl,.
v ON delight TO honor ard love and
Shall
''As long rs the heart knows passion,
AS long as life is long"
Among those | had the pleasure of
meeting were: William II. 5. Harris,
of Jonesyille; James ]. Strain, of Eta
lane. MessIs e. RpptIpy ard -
Gault, of the p. a R'ige section; Nc. VI
b. Lee, of Bogansvilie (p) and a5t but
not least, Capt, and Mis-. +. NJ. Fdrr,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14
Re.ad it in His NewSDaDer.

George Schanh. a well known German
citizen IF New Lebanon. Ohio, is a con-
Stant reade uf the Dayton Voiksze.tung.
lie knows that this paper aims to adver-
Use only the best in IT'S columns. ard
"hen he saw Chanbprlsu's Pain Balm
advertised therein for lamr b,cx, he did
not hesitate In buying Il bottle of it for
his wife, who for eight weeks had suf-
iered with ihr most terrible pains in her
back and could get no relief. lie saws:
After using the Pain Balm for few
days my wife said TO me, Il feel as though
o0'n anew and before using the entire
contents cf the bottle the mb, afable
pans had entirely vanished Il, d she could
again take up her household duties"
tie IS very thankful and hopes that ,ll
suffering likewise will hear of her won-
derfnl recovery. This valuable, li,,imeut
is for sale by f. G. Duke, Druggist.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14

The Rev. Gilbert Reed. mission
airy to China, has the courage of his
convictions. In published letter
he bewails the fact that he didnA
get more of the lo' t than he did.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14

Senator Q"ay says that he iSgoipg
to retire from active politics and that
he will not be candida f. re cleo
ton four years hence. Possibly but as
plrahts for his seat are warned that
four years arc long time.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14

My little son hr; au attack of whoCp-
ing cough ard was threatened wi h Pre- u
mona; but for ChanbtIain's Cough
Remedy we would have had a serit us
time OF it. It. also saved him from sew
rral severe attacks Of Group H. J.
STRICKFADEN, Editor World Herald,
Fair Haven, Wash. For sale by F. G.
Duke, OrMegist.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14

The p,st office department should
Try to realize that it takes twice as
much mucllage for Buffalo fair
stamp as for the SMALLER kind, and
not try to spread it. 80 Thin.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-06-14

The New York subway contract
ors, with the modesty so character
'stic Of New Workers, have ordered
Uncle Sam TO clear out the vaults of
the post office there to make room
for their tunnel Deservcdly they
have been sat down upon hard.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
MagOffin
WithdraWS.
AT THE COUNCIL MEETING HE AN
NOUNCES THAT HE WILL NOT
RE \ CANDIDATE.

Bids VIII eB Advertised for for Street
Lighting.-The Street Crossing Mat
ter is Allowed TO Slumber.-Salary
OF the Mayor Raised 10 500 a Month.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-17

If the Bible had meant to tell US
things which man can find out for
himself, it would have told us a great
many things besides the geology of the
beginning.
A man falls down with q fever upon
the banks of the Congo, and there is
growing just at his feet a medicinal
plant which rightly used would save
him
He has a Bible in his pocket Why
does the Bible not come to his rescue,
and point out to him that that medici-
nal plant contains a certain chemical
substance which viii act upon his sys-
tenn and drive away the fever?
The first thing the Bible would have
taught US. if it had meant to teach sci
ence, would have been medicine The
Bible would have told us how to make
surgical instruments. We have had to
find out all that for ourselves.
1t is much more important that we
should know how to save life than
that We should know geology. The last
thing the Bible would teach US would
be geology. if it meant to teach sci
ence
What we have, then. in the begin
ming Of Genesis, is not an account of
how the world was made, but a reve-
lation of the more important truth that
God made it. No science could ever
find that out
The Bible is a religious book, not a
scientific book, and it tries to teach
In these opening words that Gin God
we live and move and have our be-
ing" It gives US an inventory Of the
things God made. It leaves men to
find out the way in which he made
them, and the order and the time
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lament consisted fer the first hundred
years. In included the four Gospels
and a number of letters.
Instead of being collected into the
Bible, the book of the Acts was in the
pocket Of TheOphilus, the book OF the
four Gospels was not at this time in
one volume-One was in Rome. another
IN southern Italy, another in Palestine
and another in Asia Minor.
Then, Of the twenty-one letters, five
were in Greece and Macedonia, FIVE
were in Asia, one in Rome and the rest
were in private hands.
These were collected undesignedly in
the first instance One man in Rome
would perhaps hear that there was one
of these letters of Paul in Asia Minor
or in Greece, and ne would send some
one to get copy of it.
That copy would be sent, and by and
by the churches would get copies Of
most of these writings. BY the end of
the second century all the books were
known, but they were never collected
until about the end Of the third cen
fury.
Then the New Testament consisted Of
the Acts, thirteen Epistles of Paul
First John, First Peter. the EpistIes
and the Epistle of Hermas. that is to
say, there were books In the New Tes-
lament which are not In it now, and
there are books in it now which We're
not in it then.
So that the New Testament as we
have it now was not then known IT is
not tin the end of the fourth century
that these books were an stitched to-
gether and made into one. Tt was done
not by any formal act Of any church.
| but by the general consent of Gods
people.
This makes very great difference
as to the way in which we should re-
gard this book, and especially as to the
way in which we are to choose a text
here and there and a chapter here and
there, and build speculative doctrines
upon them.
Not until the third century this book
was divided into chapters, and not un-
til 1851 was it that an old Christian
monk put it into verses and employed
punctuation marks
You see this book has come by per-
fectly natural process, guided, no doubt,
by Coos mind. 1t is now in line with
all the other processes Of God, not
sprung into being by divine fat. bat &c
is a slow growth or develOpment-an
/ evolution. if you please.
THE Evolution of Bible Study" by
/ the late Henry DrummOnd New York
/ Edwin S. Markham, 285 Fourth
avenue. 1901.
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get new light upon the old truth and
to have a new proportion and empha-
sis given to what truth cannot be al
tered.
The Creation.
The first stage, then, in the history
of this subject, is that in which the
cosmOgony of the world has been deter
mined by the first chapter of Genesis,
and which teaches that the world was
made in six literal days. SO Genesis
was supposed to teach.
Theological teaching and sermons
were based on this belief. Scientific
Investigations were made and books
were written with this as an unques-
toned postUlate. And literature, we
know, from the primer up to the epic
poem, has taken 1t for granted.
II.
Then biologists were hammering at
the rocks all over the world, and this
question came before them. They came
to the conclusion that it was i'm
possible that God had made the world
in six literal days, or that the world
is only 5000 or 5000 years old.
Christian biologists did not dispute
that God could make the world, or
anything, in any time or in any way;
but they could not help disputing the
process by which God had made the
world as opposed to the process Of ere
alton by fat, which was supposed to
have been the method of scripture
The ReconciIers.
This marks the second period, the
period Of the recoRcilers. Some of the
ablest men on both sides of the At
/ laEtlc worked very hard at that Ques-
ucn. They studied geology with mi
mute and reverent care.
They studied the Hebrew Bible, and
: tried to find out whether day" was
not susceptible of a larger meaning
They very soon came to the conclusion
and adopted the view that day" in
! the Mosaic cOsmOgOny might represent
! very long time and that after the
beginning when God created the
heaven and the earth there might
I have elapsed a time for which we have
no date. They worked at the order re-
/ corded in Genesis, and tried to harmon
/ lie that with the order of geology.
Some of them worked at that with
apparently very great success. Among
these TeCOncileTs we find such names
/ as Pye Smith, Dr.. Chalmers, whose ser
mons based on studies in astronomy
are well known, GaUssen. GuyOt of
/ Princeton, and Sir William Dawson of
Montreal This older genera ton all at
/ tempted to do that thing-to reconcile
/ the two tables, the chronology OF
science and the order of Genesis.
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the Bible came out of religion, not re
ligion out of the Bible; just as the war
literature Of the United States came
out of the war. and not the war out of
/ the war literature.
Secondly: These men when they
: spoke were not typewriters. They were
authors. They were not pens. They
were men; and their individuality
] comes out of every page they wrote.
Sometimes they write a better style
than they do at other times. Sometimes
theiI minds are clearer and their ar
I guments more condensed and consecu-
/ tive and logical.
Look at some of the involved theo-
/ logical statements in the New Tesla
ment, and contrast them with the alb
/ sclutely pellucid utterances of the same
author written on different occasion
when he was in different mood.
Those men were not mere pens, I re-
peat; they were authors, and it is not
the book that is inspired, so much as
/ the men. God inspired men to make
an inspired book; but the religion does
not come out of the book the book
| comes out Of the religion. Just as
scientific man in communication with
nature reads its secret, drinks in its
| spirit and writes il down, so a man
1 who walks with God catches the mind
I of God and gets revelations from God
I and writes them down; religion is not
( the result of this, but the cause Of 1t.
/ Thirdly: Then I need not tell you
/ that in most cases these men did not
/ know that they were making a Bible
/ Paul had probably not the least idea
/ that his letters were going to be kept
on to the nineteenth century, and be
/ read in our churches and become the
( fountain head of theology. He wrote
/ them simply as letters.
Fourthly: I need not remind you
! again that the Bible is not a single
book; it is a library. II is a system Of
/ sixty books written for very different
/ purposes, by different minds.
1t contains history. which came out
4 of facts: devotional books. which came
/ our Of experiences; didactic pieces, poe
/ try and philosophy; quotations from
/ the heather pOets-'As certain also of
your own poets have said" observed
/ Paul to the Athenians Mars Hill.
/ Although it is a great convenience
/ to have all these books bound together
: into one, we are very apt TO be misled
] in studying this book, if we do not re-
member that it is not a consecutive
/ book. but a library. These books were
/ stitched together by human hands
under the guidance Of God, doubtless,
/ but by human hands.
VII.
! Let me tell you of what the New Tes-
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III
A New Science.

But as science came to be more and
more studied, not so much geology this
time as biology, and embryOlogy, and
paleOnt0lOgy, ii soon became evident
that the position of the reconcflers was
becoming more and more preearious, as
the result Of these studies.
Scientific men made out a new table
OF the forms and order of life, and they
said. Now look at Genesis again, and
look at our table" As men who with
cHDdid minds looked at these two ia
bles, they were bound to admit that
there were discrepancies between them.
That was a period Of ALAN. A num-
Der of men who had been working at
the reconciliation Of Genesis and
science were forced to reconsider their
position. But they faced the situation
manfully, while they said: I'VE do not
see any way out Of this along the line
upOn which we are working a present,
/ but help win come from some other
source" And help did come, and from
a quite unexpected source.
Meanwhile, in England and in Amer
lea and Germany, a new science was
springing up, a theological science, the
science Of Biblical criticism. It is COM
paratively new even yet. Many of its
results are uncertain, but some def
mite results have been established.
The method is this:
It takes up this book, the Bible as
Professor DOwden takes up Shakes
peare, and says we VIII apply the or
binary methods Of criticism to this
beck. We viii find out what plays are
historical, what plays are tragical, and
what are romantic. We will apply all
methods of literary criticism to these
plays" By applying this method to the
Bible they have given us what I might
almost call a new Bible
They ask themselves with reference
to the Bible such questions as these:
Here is the book Of Job. What does
it mean? Is it fact, an attempt to
communicate a literal history Is it
a drama, a pOem2 What is it," These
are perfectly fair questions.
They are literary questions, and you
cannot forbid literary men to ask such
questions; questions OF subject and
! treatment: questions OF style, of con-
I ceptiOn, as well as questions Of author
ship.
And when in their literary researches
they came to the book of Genesis, they
said: What kind of book is this2 There
/ is some history here, there is some fact
( here, there is some philosophy here
and there is apparently some poetry
here"
When they came to the first chapter
3 Of Genesis, they said: we have al
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Revelation.

It is a principle Of Interpretation well
known to all theOlogians that the Bible
never reveals anything which man
could find out for himself Man could
find out the way in which the world
was made
There is no question about the fact
that God made it. The only question
is as to the process. Was it spoken
into space in a moment, and organ
lied in six days; or was it made by a
gradual series of operations in the
hands Of secondary causes? That Is
the only question.
The Bible never reveals anything
that man could find out for himself.
Apply this principle to any department,
and you will find that it holds true
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vsnCes TO the married mems wives.
But he lacks the aUdaCity, and is, by
nature, too moral, far too moral, what
ever malicious tongues may say to the
contrary.
I viii quote again that anonymous
English writer who thinks that the re-
form of married men should not stop
E there. The frequency he says, with
which married men cultivate OppOTtu-
mites for dining away from home
breeds a suspicion in the bachelor
mind that married life means even
later hours than the moral bachelor is
accustomed to. And the married men
clubs! Their evident JOY, too in their
liberty is provocative of thought II is
as though one should cultivate illness
the better to enjoy occasional spells Of
good health"
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/ IN the presence of the taunts and gibes
Of the married man.
Taxes on bachelors have been sUg-
gested by much married political econ
omists who have selhshly thought to
throw some of the burden which they
have thOughtlessly taken upon them
selves ON to the shoulders of those who
have displayed more foresight
Think exclaims the injured bach
elor, "Of the combined injustice and
fO0lishness of such fiscal methods
Prudence, caution and sagaCity are to
be taxed. so that the reckless, impru-
dent and improvident may benefit"
Too absurd for words.
believe that the virtues of the mar
ried man have been too long Overrated.
Married men stand decidedly and sadly
in want of reform. For one thing, that
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E cannot disguise from
ourselves the fact that
- II far more people are
reading science just now than religion.
7 do not speak Of America or England
and Europe, Dut OF the world-or India
and Japan and the colonies, where sci
eGcs is being studied on every hand.
W. are constantly confronted with the
difficulty. Young men set 3 few scien-
tilc IDEAS, and Immediately attack the
book of Genesis.
One Of the most distinguished scien-
ti1c men in England, not very. long ago,
When he was asked why he did not
throw his immense weight on the side
Of religion, said: You hand me your
religious book. I open IL. and the very
first page I read hopelessly oontradicts
ell my other knowledge. What am I
10 DOT"
There is no greater faIacy
than the position assumed by
that teacher; nor is there any
W'ASS S&aAuAle DL lBuOfdACe On Lle
part Of a scientific man. wish very
briefly to ~ to put before you the
situation a5 /, at present stands. It is
not only OF interest in the connection in
which have spoken, but it is a beau
tiful example Of the progress of thought
sn one Of the higher departments OF
knowledge.
This question has gone through three
very distinct stages. Until a very short
time ago there was only one opinion
about the beginning of the world. II
was held by the church, it was held
by science, that the world was made
in six literal days.
Even IL our own childhood most of
Us can remember that was the belief OF
Ell our teachers. and of our parents
and became our own first belief. 1t was
a very beautiful belief, that old belief
but il has been disturbed
We might have wished that it. had MOI
been disturbed, but we cannot help
that We are always being disturbed
in our positions as knowledge advances
and that is ore of the great symptoms
Of the progress Of truth.
That is what university and other
lecture courses are for. We attend them
to be disturbed not merely to be con-
firmed in the IDEAS We have held all
our lives, buff we are growing. ia
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ways regarded this chapter as being
/ science; but now as literary men, read
ing it over again with all our literary
aids. we are inclined rather to believe
that it is another form of literary COM
position"
Some say it is one form Of compost
ton. some say il is another; but they
are all unanimous in declaring that it
is not science.
The New Bible.
As a mere literary question. the first
chapter " Genesis is not science. If
you ask Bunyan what the first chapter
of Genesis is, he viii say it is science.
If you ask a scientific man contempt
rary with Bunyan what it is, he will
say it is science.
If you ask the modern literary critic
what it is. he viii say that it is not
science If you ask Mr. Huxley what
it is, he viii agree with the modern
critic, that it is not science.
This is the new field that has been
opened, and it is the result of that lit
erary criticism that has come to the
help of the man who found himself in
the dilemma to choose between the
record of the rocks and the record of
the Mosaic cOsm0gOny.
It is now no longer necessary for
him to reconcile the science of Cen
esis with the science of geology or
paleOntolOgy, because as a matter of
fact, according to the most modern
ideas Genesis is not science at all.
That is the third stage into which
this question has come. Very many
people have noticed that change They
have not observed the rise of this new
science
This new science stands upon as firm
a basis as the science Of theology it
self, or as the science of geology.
The clearest way out Of the difficulty
is to fall back upon the position that
that is not a scientific account of the
I creation
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So the married man appears TO weary
Of home practice of the amatory tai
ents, and to cultivate them at the ex-
pense OF those who have no homes in
which to practice them.
Then the knowledge that he is mar
ried, that he cannot Sc suspected Of
Intentions in his attentions, gives
him a courage. a reckless dash that
compare with the trembling timidity
Of the bachelor much to the disad-
vantage Of the other
Besides the bachelor is always more
or less suspicious, looked askance at.
Women say: Let US be on our guard,
he's a bachelor" Poor bacheIOri
Where does he come in2
True, he may retaliate. or try to, by
whispering soft compliments and adj
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~

ourselves the fact that
- - far more reopIe are
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BY MAX O'RELL

Having regard to these and other
points, which consideration of space
does not permit of my enumerating, it
is perfectly clear that the scope Of a
society for the reform Of married men
is considerable, and I must confess my
surprise at the limitation thereof by
the American society which has called
forth these comments.
Apparently. it aims only at the refOT-
nation of that trait in married folk
on which Charles Lamb animadverted
in one of the most daintily charming of
his essays; THAT entire complacency
and satisfaction which beam in the
COUntenanCes OF a newly married COU-
pie" Most Objectionable, of course;
but it scarcely needs a society for its
reform. A year or so of married life
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VI
The Gulf Stream Of Religion.


While speaking Of this new method
Of looking at the Bible. this new sci
ence of literary criticism. I may add
one or two words about the New Tes-
lament in the same connection:
First: I should like especially to look
at this thought. that the Bible is not
the cause of religion. but the product
of it; that religion does not cOme-did
not come, out of the Bible, but the
Bible came out of religion. repeat
religion did not come out of the Bible
but the Bible came out of religion.
Flowing from the beginning Of time,
through the ocean of human life, there
has been a great current-lilxe the Gulf
stream-Of religion. It has been put in
motion and kept in motion by the spirit
Of God.
Men going along by that current have
heard God speak, learned something Of
his secret and truths, and have written
down what they heard. In that way