The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06
DEsTH TRRoEs OF AM ENEMY.

Nearly one hundred years ago, Count Joseph De
Maistre ambassador from France to the court of
Russia, foretold III his treatise on "Sectarian
Clutches that the disntegraton of Professionalism
would begin with its preachers He wrote: "In all
these churches separated from Catholic unity the
great changes announce will begin with the clergy
and the church which viii be the most exposed to
European influence viii be the first to afford this
great and interesting spectacle (Chapter V, page
32L)
A few vel r- II indicate for
the ministry. named Archball Black, presented
himself before the New York presbytery for ordi-
nation Examined as to his belief in revelation and
the inspiration q he Bible. Mr. Black candidly
admitted that h2 I'D net believe the story of Adam
and Eve, the existence Of the Garden of Eden, and
furthermore, that be had his doubts Of the inspira
ton of the first eleven chapter Of Genesis Not
wthstanding his denials and h oubts. the ordina-
ton of the young man was formally approved at
the meeting of the New York 3rcsbytery convened
in New York City, Oct 4.
We do no injustice to the members of the presby-
tery-the Presbyterian ministers present-if we as
sumo that they each and all protested against the
and, while out of harmony with the creed of their
church, in entire accord with the reflections of
Mr.. Black.
The eleven chapters Of the Book of Genesis con-
tain, all told 299 verses Let us take for the sake
of brevity the first verse of the first chapter 'In
the beginning God created the Heaven and the
earth" Now will Mr.. Black, or any member of the
presbytery that consented to his ordination. give
us, the exact Scientific" account of the creation9
When they have satisfied us of the soundness
Of the scientific" method, we can apply their ex-
PLANTATION to the other 29S verses An easier prob
lem than this could hardly be proposed We await
with patience its solution.
When every member of this New York nres
bytery entering the ministry, he solemnly
avowed that he had been called to it by Jesus
Christ, and it so happens that the first eleven.
chapters of Genesis, repudiated by these Presby-
terrain minister's are actually endorsed without any
qualification or mental reservation whatever by our
Blessed Lord himself. The eleven chapters deal
principally with three great events in the history
of the human race:
Cd The creation of male and female.
% The martyrdom of Abel.
CD The food
Now listen to what our Divine Lord spoke and
believed: "And he answered and said unto them:
Have ye not read that He who made man in the
beginning, made them male and femaleY And he
said: For this cause shall man leave father and
mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and thew
shall be in one flesh. Wherefore they are no more
two, but one flesh. What, therefore God hath
Joined together, let no put asunder"- st. Matt
xx:46
20 That upon you may come all the Just blood
that hath been shed upon the earth from the blood
Of Abel the just, unto the blood of Zacharias
whom you killed between the temple and the al
tar."-St. Matt xiii :35
I'D "And as it was in the days of Noe so also
shall the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in
the days of the food, they were eating and drink
ing marrying and giving in marriage until the
day that Noe entered the ark and they knew not till
the hood came and took them all away"-St. Matt.
xxiv:37
Had Mr.. Black and the presbytery which or
damned him been present at that controversy tbev
would have told our Savior that his doctrines were
"unscientitc"; that the schools of thought adj
vanced thinkers, and the universities had decided
against the traditional view" that Professor Eliot
David Starr Jordan and RockefeIler's univers;+v
had pronounced against the Biblical account Of the
creation of man. the murder of Abel. and the story
OF the food; and that they preferred to march nth