The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-01

age in the world.
Letters were widely diffused. Books
could be bought for a few cents
apiece. They had schools and univer-
sites, especially of rhetoric and med
icine.
| At Alexandria was a great Hrarv
and here were a multitude of Jews
who caught up the bookish habits of
the people of Alexandria, many of
whom devoted their time to writing
philosophy and poetry.
| Josephus undertook to re-tell the
story of the Bible in a style to suit
Greek skeptics. Next after him
comes the Jewish Allegorists, who put
mystical meanings into the Bible
/ character.
The writings Of Barnabus belong to
! this type. The writings of Phylo are
as hard to read as an English classic.
There was a cycle Of poets who wrote
the Sybilline oracles.
Tn Judea there developed type Of
writing not found elsewhere, that is.
the Apochryphal. Daniel is the
typical example. There is wide gap
between the writings of the Old Test
ament and the New, but the Apochral-
ypse is on somewhat the same type
as the Aprochwyphal. The Apoch-
Ialypse made much use of symbol to
typify truth. 1t grew up in time Of
persecution for the purpose of en-
cOuraging the people who were perse-
been foretold. 1t was safer both for
the writer and reader to smbolize
the cruel men Of whom they wrote, in
stead Of calling them by name. The
writers get deal of comfort from the
thought Of the punishment of then
enemies.
Christianity as literary thing
must be studied from the point of
view of the literature of it's age.
For instance, it would be futile to
study the Apochralypse from a scien-
tific standpoint without a knowledge
of the Aprochlyptic literature of it's
age.
Were the men who wrote these
Apochralyses, deceivers? Most GER
tainly not.
One of the most interesting addresses
given this year at the Bible Institute
was the institute sermon delivered by
President Robert L. Kelly last even
ing. President Kelly read as
scripture lesson the 10Th chapter of
Corinthians, after which prayer was
offered.
Mrs. Hadley then gave a vocal solo.
President Kelly used as a text
"Christian Unity" He called at
tention to the value of the study of
this subject of "Christian Unity,' in
our lives. He also brought to notice
the vastness of this subject and the
great amount of reading necessary to
understand it. If we
would study all these books we would
find many apparent contradictions.
We would find passages from Paul
and John which lack this unity. But
today we are growing as church;
we are growing as a people and I
pray we are growing united
We might consider this subject of |
Christian Unfty fro manother stand
point; that Of necessity among
Christian people. 1t is not long since
we could look upon the church and |
see the sharp lines of sectarianism,
but that time is gradually passing
away and it is a fact that the greatest
M the Friends church to-
day are those of ecclesiastical and
not theorlogolical differences.
But let us look upon this subject
under the head of "Christian Gent
u.s. The things that we must ever
ook upon is the guidance In our daily
lives. We prize that talk which
Jesus had With the woman at the we'll
in which he spoke of the spring of
life. But we must not forget that
misunderstanding have arisen among
us as Christian people. Christian
anarchy exists in this principle if not
understood. Mormonism
owes to practice polygamy under this
Misunderstanding. God is not dis
closing his thoughts to any one man
alone. We will not give up our idea
hat God directs man, but we will
quote John, who says, "When the Son
If God makes man free he is free
indeed. We must not forget that