Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-07
LOOKER-ON in IOWA.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Hampton, June 6.-Andover Semi
nary is in great demand these days.
Harvard and Yale wants her. Grinnell
has made open advances to induce her
to come west, and the following from
an eastern daily has settled the whole
business according to the corresponds
ent:
"Andover Theological Seminary of
Andover Mass. the Oldest of the Con-
sregational theological schools, proba-
bly, will be moved to Chicago and be
consolidated with the Chicago Theolog-
ical Seminary. Leading educators of
the church and the directors of the two
Institutions are formulating plans
whereby the endowment of. the Massa-
chusetts school can be transferred to
the local institution. The consolidation
will be effected as soon as possible.
1T is the plan of the advocates OF the
consolidation to bring the Andover fac
ulty of FIVE members and the Andover
endowment, amounting to more than
half million dollars. to Chicago. This
addition will give the Chicago Theolos-
zeal Seminary a faculty of twenty
members and an endowment exceeding
$4,000
The other day in GladbroolS the writ
er picked UP printed statement OF the
affairs of the First National! Bank of
that place, as shown by the comptrol-
ler's call on April 30th, 1902. Under the
head of liabilities. deposits We're $244,-
1874, and President Nee told the
LooHer-On that big percentage of
this nearly quarter of million dol
lars belongs to the farmers around
Gladbrook. Largely a German popula
ton. this large amount is what these
citizens have made off their farms, this.
too, after making many improvem'' hts.
stocking their farms, building big barns
and residences. It's the surplus these
we'll to-do farmers have no particular
use for, so put 1t in the bank.
Because our Representative Lacey
introduced the bill, and because many
of his constituents and other citizens of
Iowa did not understand why, the fol-
lowing concerning the printing of
United States is of interest just now.
1t can be said that later developments
make 1t improbable that the bill will
become law, nevertheless what follows
explains Representative Laceys raso-
luton:
THE committee on printing of the
house of representative has ordered the
printing of the extracts compiled from
the four gospels by Thomas Jefferson,
and called by him the Morals of Jesus
Of Nazareth The original was not IN
Guided in the list of Jeffersonia ordered
printed by the government in 1888. for
the reason that the family were then
to sell 1t. 1t has since been
purchased and is now in the National
Mr.. Heatwole, chairman of
the house committee on printing, gives
the following reasons for the action of
the committee: Representative Lacey,
Of Iowa, about a wear ago found this
book under lock and key in the Nation
al museum, and wrote short article
describing 1t, which was printed in
many papers of the country, and the
result is that frequent requests have
been made for the publication of the
book, these requests coming largely
from ministers of the gospel on the one
hand and people interested in the
of Thomas Jefferson on the
other hand. Accordingly Mr.. Lacey in
troduced a resolution in the house pro-
viding for the publication of the work.
1t was carefully considered by the
house committee on printing and ia
reported
Mr.. Heatwole says of the character
Of the book: The effect of it is most
excellent, and is one of the most con-
vincing proofs of the Christian religion.
He has prepared this little compendium
in Greek, Latin, French and English.
He has not used a single syllable or
punctuation mark that is not taken lit
orally from the gospels. He has done
1t entirely without any words of his
own. No one that examines this little
whether he be saint or sinner
will rise from his perusal without hay-
Ing loftier idea Of the teachings of
the Savior
The Minneapolis Tribune says: "Jef-
ferson was what was then called an
infidel and is now called an agnostic
same source as Thomas Paine, whose
political writings had to wait for the
present generation and Moncure D.
Conway for adequate editing, because
Of the popular anathema against his
works on religious subjects. Jefferson
was less aggressive and better poised
than Paine, and his larger political pre-
left him less time to offend
the dominant feeling of his time. He
would have been pretty good liberal
Christian today" The Rev. Charles w.
Nevin, of Philadelphia, writes to the
Press objecting to the
publication of the book on the SUPPOSE
ton, not yet verified, that it is an at
tack on the Christian religion. NO
one could fairly object to the publica-
ton of Mr.. Jefferson's annotated Bible
oy a private enterprise, but every citi-
zen should object to a national assault
Of this character upon any religious
belief, and every Christian should re-
sent proposed attack upon Christian
ty under the imprint Of national sane
.ion.''
Out here in Iowa the advance in the
,etail price of beef has been compara-