The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-03-27
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Albert Griffin has gone back to
type setting, taking position in the
State printing office at Topeka. Mr..
Griffin is an old publisher and author
and has been a prominent factor in
Kansas; but the irony of fate meets
him in the closing career of his life.
He is 90 years old. Dodge City peo-
pie will remember Mr.. Griffin as a
temperance lecturer and prohibition
list. 1t was he who planned the clos
ing Of the Dodge City saloons in
1884; and in this Intellectual attempt
to enforce the prohibitory liquor law
-s1y the aid of the State authorities,
5nob gathered in Dodge City and as
saulted and defed many citizens vine
were assisting Mr.. Griffin and the
assistant attorney general.
His varied experience brings him
back to where he began d business
lifes but Jordan is a hard road to ira
vel, especially if you tarry along the
route and make faces at the people as
you pass by
Rev. G.. Lowther is to be tried in
the Methodist conference this week,
at Arkansas City, for heresy. Mr.
Lowther maintains that the language
used with reference to the serpent
that tempted Eve was fgurative
rather than literal Mr.. Lowther is a
deep thinker and profound student,
but the Interpretation which he makes
is not according to the doctrine of the
NJ E. church. In this day Of intel
lectual progress and freedom in Bible
Interpretation, old forms and theories
may be set aside by the advanced
thinkers; but conflict is bound to
result with established church creeds.
There will be heretics and martyrs SO
long as the world lives, and SO long
as there shall be misunderstanding
and doubts.
Lord Bacon says, sin the first ages
(speaking of the use of parallels, etc.
when such inventions and conclusions
of tee human reason as are now trite
and common were new and little
known, all things abounded with IA
bles, parallels, simIles, comparisons
and illusions, which were not intend
ed to conceal but to inform and teach
while the minds of men continued
rude and Impractical in matters of
subtility and speculation, OF even i'm
patient, and in a manner incapable of
receiving such things as did not di-
rectly fall under and strike the senses.
For as hieroglyphics were in use be
fore writing, so were parallels in use
before arguments. And even to this
day, if any man would let new light
in upon the human understanding
and conquer prejudice, without rails
ing contests, animosities, opposition
or disturbance, he must go on in the
same path, and have recourse to the
like method of allegory, metaphor
and allusion.''
The Interpretation by men does not
give much apprehension to the cause
of religion. The character of Christ
cannot be lessened Or diminished by
what new thoughts may be interpo-
lated in rendering of Bible history.
What the people need is the essence
of Jesus character. To go into the
realms of creation and life only mys-
titles, and puts US largely on the in
tellectual plane.
We are reminded that mans ped
igree cuts no figure in the estimation
of men. The public does not care
for ones father and mother. It is
not genealogy that makes a man. A
mans life and character determines
his standing before his fellow men
and God.