Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-06-20

tiles are the issue, is poorly equip
ped to teach and to lead. The self Opini0nateG
teacher who assumes to supplant the heavenly
principle OF faith with the results of scence and
study" proves himself 'blind leader of the
blind.'
The school or university whose ultimate thought
is the substitution of the results of mans nvestiga
tons for the nterances of the most High God is to
all intents and purposes blasphemous caricature
The exatation of mans research above the revealed
will OF God, is one method Of robbing the Infinite
God that poor sinful mortal man might be deifed
Faith is the opposite of scholarship and is at vari
ance with most all of the results of demOnstrable in
vestgation Jesus said to Peter, occupied with the
circumstance of the withered tree, "Have faith in
God" Religion is an abstraction signifying moth.
ing in itself. II based upon trnth it is life
lasting with God If based upon the deductions oi
mere man, it is nothing but ignis fatuus and as
dreadful in it's contamination as the paganism oi
Brahma or the horribly misleading teaching OF So
called Christian Science. The untold millions with
which the Chicago University has been and report
sayss yet to be endowed it to to take on an
imperiousness in the SO called religious world, that
the donor Of these millions dares to in the
commercial world, bringing blight and ruin to every
who disputes his right as priori like giver, like
receiver.
Here is an authoritative utterance OF the vicious
school by Prof. Coulter as follows: NIn the place
Of religion through faith is to come the religion
dominated and established by science and study
Christian religion is founded upon the utterances Of
the whole Bible, having it's inception in Genesis,
and it's closing and complemental thought in the
Revelation Of Jesus Christ. "Without faith it is
Impossible to please Him., says the Spirit; but this
bold and aggressive doctor sweeps aside the pro-
his own dream. The Eternal God emphasizes the
value Of faith and cOgnate terms using them hum
dreds Of times. The testimony Of the Scriptures is
vicOusy set aside while this misead teacher would
occupy man with fancy.
Exploiting mis- imited conceptions Of God, this
overeaFned prOleasor says; Scholarship at last has
entered On iCs serions msson Of Curbing the rreve
,lant emOtiOns Of mankipd.n This prOiessadIy
Christian braggart also onensiVely adds: "And Of
Introducing that intellectual domination which mast
analyze the problems Of religion to their ultimate
facts and construct general aystems Of beliefs which
are rational and elective" Lucy Laney, who
bears sOmeting Of the same relation to her people
that Booker r. Washington does &C. man, says,
.'Oug people do like high sounding big words. !"
This Il equally true Of the modern critic but lack
III the Obscurty Of their grandilOQuent words, and
dihehag from the empty bOmbast Of some Of the
colored orators. is found the motive that prompts
these attacks upon the simple utterances Of the
spirit watch has solsCed 90 many wounded and dis
pirited enes.
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Who has sent sch0larRhip on this errand Of oppo-
uitiOn 70 TIE clear unmistakable teaching Of the
words How Il man to determine what is relevant
OF irrelevant in the spirits application Of the word
81 God 70 tue emCtiOnsi What viii man substitute
idr what he displaCes ON the sacred pagei Who
will be able to atand before the wrath Of Almighty
God after rObbing men oi the sOlace which HE word
Il Resigned to bringi
Who ia to furnish the intellectual domination
which must analyze the problems Of religIoni
Where the problems that disturb the scholars to
be fOundt Who is TO give security that the solutions