Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-20
Bible Not tho Word Of God.

Blshop Charles ID. Williams of the
Episcopal diocese Of Michigan in an
address to Y NJ. c. A. members on
THE Bible and the Word of God" de-
clared that the Bible was not the word
of God. and that the teachings to the
contrary are the most prolific source
Of unbelief the church has to Contend
with.
The bishop said:
Nowhere does the Bible declare it,
self the word of God. Yet we are
told we must take 1t in its entirety 1t
is venerable museum, and visitors
are requested not to touch it. AS it
is the word CT God, there is no other.
Take the young man Just from coli
lege. He reals Genesis and finds inn.
possible geology, astronomy and eth
nology. His teacher says, when ques-
toned, Manipulate it until it fits your
Sciences II too honest to handle the
word Of God craftily, the young man
gives up the Bible. He refuses to stul-
tify his reason.
Square Deal for Public.
"The Bible needs no defense; all it
needs Is q square deal. There are
those who read it devoutly, diligently.
But I never say the Bible is the word
OF God: say the Bible and the word
OF God.
ITO those who accept the entire book
as the literal work of God, would
point out that 1t is nowhere SO stated.
Christ tore asunder the Old Testament
precepts, the law OF Moses, and fur
nished new ones. Where the Old Tes-
lament directed men to hate their en-
emies, the teachings Of Christ were to
love your enemies"
Romeward Trend in the Church.
The success of Ronanism is not to
be gagged merely by the growth of the
Roman Church" in England, says
Maurice Hellon in the Liberte, Par
islam daily which claims to occupy in
the French press the place taken by
the New York Sun in this country.
"The Anglican church is being attack
ed by its old enemy, from within, as
we'll as from without Many men, fol-
lowing the example Of Newman, have
thrown off the stole of the Anglican
priesthood; but the conversion" of
many others has gone on without any
such break. 1.-THE body Of Anglican
doctrines is SO flexible and indeter-
inmate" that without openly violating
Anglican formularies Roman dognpas
may be easily grated upon them. In
other words, there is practically q
Roman church within the Anglican
wooden horse of the Vatican where
in are warriors ready, when the oppor-
tunity offers, to surrender the citadel.
This writer thus describes the Rom
anizing practices of English clergy
men:
To-day they wear the chasuble. to-
morrow they will raise an altar to the
Virgin. The League of All Saints
whose purpose is to obtain for the
dead, by the sacrifice of the restored
mass, participation in the merits of the
living, encourages their efforts at re-
action. A whole party of Anglicans at
this hour stand on the threshold of the
Roman church. From time to time,
some one OF them goes over, acknowl-
edges the infallibility of the pope, and
without undergoing fresh baptism en-
tiers the nave. sometimes reaches the
choir. of the Roman church. This par
ty, who are called Ritualists from their
love of exterior pomp and ceremony
in divine service, and their belief in
the efficacy of the sacramento, form a
very seminary of English Catholic
ism; in this self-applied title lies the
intimation of their past and future
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